Facts about the First President of India

Dr. Rajendra Prasad, (born December 3, 1884, Zeradei, India — died February 28, 1963, Patna), Indian politician, lawyer, and journalist who was the First President of India(1950–62). He also was a comrade of Mahatma Gandhi early in the noncooperation movement for independence and was President of the Indian National Congress (1934, 1939, and 1947).

• Dr. Rajendra Prasad joined the Indian National Congress in 1911 and turned into a leader of the Bihar and Odisha area.

• As a youngster, Dr. Rajendra Prasad was instructed by a Maulavi (Muslim researcher), as his father wanted him to learn the Persian language, Hindi and Arithmetic.

• Prasad was a graduate of the Calcutta Law College. He practiced at the Calcutta High Court and in 1916 transferred to the Patna High Court and founded the Bihar Law Weekly.

• Becoming an active journalist in the nationalist interest, he wrote for Searchlight in English, founded and edited the Hindi weekly Desh (“Country”), and started his lifelong campaign to establish Hindi as the national language.

• Prasad assumed a noteworthy part in framing the Bihari Students Conference in the year 1906 at the hall of Patna College.

• Dr. Rajendra Prasad filled in as the leader of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the principal constitution of the Republic of India, which kept going from 1948 to 1950.
• He additionally assumed the duty of Minister of Food and Agriculture in 1946 in the interim national government.

• The British administration had imprisoned Prasad plenty of times. He was arrested for his assistance in the Salt Satyagraha Movement of 1931 and the Quit India Movement of 1942.

• Dr. Rajendra Prasad was imprisoned several times by the British for noncooperation activities, he served nearly three years (August 1942–June 1945) in jail with the Congress Party’s Working Committee.

• As the President of India, Prasad quit the Congress and set up new rules for the parliamentarians that are still followed.

• He was unanimously chosen as the 1st President of India at the last session of the Constituent Assembly of the interim government.

• In January 1934, Bihar was hit by a staggering seismic tremor. The British authorities had to free Prasad from imprison with the goal that he could lead the relief services in the state. After a year, when another seismic tremor hit Quetta (now in Pakistan), Prasad was again chosen as the President of the Quetta Earthquake Relief Committee.

• Prasad retired from public life in 1962 because of his deteriorating health. That same year he was honoured with the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award. His autobiography, Atmakatha, was published in 1946. He is also the author of India Divided (1946), Mahatma Gandhi and Bihar, Some Reminiscences (1949).