Smt. Pratibhatai Patil (Hon’ble Former President of India) - Life Time Achievement Award

Lokmat Maharashtrian of the Year Awards 2017 - Smt. Pratibhatai Patil, Hon’ble Former President of India Smt. Patil assumed office as the 12th President of India on July 25, 2007. She was the first woman to have been elected to this august office. Immediately prior to election as the President of India, Smt. Patil was the Governor of Rajasthan from November 8, 2004 till June 21, 2007. At the young age of 27 years, she successfully contested her first election to the Maharashtra State Legislature from the Jalgaon Assembly constituency. Subsequently she was continuously elected four times as MLA from the Edlabad (Muktai Nagar) constituency till 1985. Thereafter, she served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from 1985 to 1990 and later elected as a Member of Parliament to the 10th Lok Sabha in the 1991 General Elections from the Amravati constituency. She enjoys the unique distinction of not having lost a single election that she contested till date.

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