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Ram Baran Yadav

Ram Baran Yadav was born on 4 February 1948 is a Nepali politician who has been President of Nepal since 2008.

 Previously he served as Minister of Health from 1999 to 2001 and was General Secretary of the Nepali Congress party.

 He is Nepal's first President following the declaration of a republic in 2008.

Yadav was the Minister of State for Health in the 1991-1994 Nepali Congress government.

He was elected to the House of Representatives in the 1999 election as a candidate of the Nepali Congress.

 After that election, he became Minister of Health

Personal Life:

Ram Baran Yadav was born to Thani Yadav and Ram Rati Yadav on 4 February 1948 at Sapahi Village Development Committee (VDC) Ward No. 9, Dhanusa district of Nepal. 

He qualified as a doctor and married the late Julekha Yadav. Yadav has two sons and a daughter.

Yadav currently resides at Sheetal Niwas in Kathmandu with his older son and daughter. His younger son lives in the United States with his family.

Political life

President Ram Baran Yadav began his political career while studying medicine in Calcutta, India. 

He came in contact with several Nepali politicians who had self-exiled themselves in India, such as B. P. Koirala, Ganesh Man Singh, Subarna Shamsher Rana, 

Pushpa Lal Shrestha, and Saroj Koirala. Inspired by these leaders, Yadav started engaging himself in politics actively.

 He championed the cause for multi-party democracy during the referendum held in 1980. While practicing as a physician for several years, 

He engaged himself in politics as an active cadre of the Nepali Congress Party. He was a rural private practitioner for several years as well as a personal 

physician to Koirala, the first elected Prime Minister of Nepal, from 1980 to 1982

Pranab Kumar Mukherjee

Pranab Kumar Mukherjee born in 11 December 1935 is the 13th and current President of India, in office since July 2012.

 In a political career spanning six decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and occupied 

several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India. Prior to his election as President, Mukherjee was Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012,

 and the Congress party's top troubleshooter.

Mukherjee got his break in politics in 1969 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi helped him get elected to the Rajya Sabha,

 the upper house of Parliament, on a Congress ticket. Following a meteoric rise, he became one of Indira Gandhi's most trusted lieutenants, and a minister in her

 cabinet by 1973. During the controversial Internal Emergency of 1975–77, he was accused (like several other Congress leaders) of committing gross excesses.

 Mukherjee's service in a number of ministerial capacities culminated in his first stint as finance minister in 1982–84. 

Mukherjee was also Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha from 1980 to 1985.

Early political career:

Mukherjee's political career began in 1969, when he managed the successful Midnapore by-election campaign of an independent candidate, 

V. K. Krishna Menon. The then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, recognised Mukherjee's talents and recruited him to her party, the Indian National Congress.

 He became a member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of Indian parliament) in July 1969. Mukherjee would be re-elected to the house in 1975, 1981, 1993 and 1999.

 On july 1969 he was elected in rajya sabha. Some of his international oraganisation are as following in manner 1) Board of governers 2)International monetary fund 1982-1985 3) World bank 4)asian development bank.

Political party role:

Mukherjee is "very well respected within the party social circles."

 Media accounts describe him as having "a reputation as a number-crunching politician with a phenomenal memory and an unerring survival instinct."

Mukherjee became a member of the Congress Working Committee on 27 January 1978. He also became a member of the Central Parliamentary Board of the All India 

Congress Committee (AICC) that year. 

Mukherjee briefly held the position of treasurer of the AICC and the Congress party in 1978.

Early life and career:

Mukherjee was born to a Bengali family at village Mirati in Birbhum district in the Bengal province of British India (now in West Bengal).

 His father, Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee, was active in the Indian independence movement and was a member of West Bengal Legislative Council between 1952 and 1964

 as a representative of the Indian National Congressand was the member of AICC. His mother was Rajlakshmi Mukherjee.

Mamnoon Hussain

Hussain briefly served as Governor of Sindh in 1999; his stint as Governor was cut short by the October 1999 military coup detat.

 A Nawaz Sharif loyalist, Hussain was elected as President of Pakistan on 30 July 2013; he received 432 votes, 

while rival candidate Wajihuddin Ahmed received 77 votes. He took office on 9 September 2013, succeeding Asif Ali Zardari, who did not seek re-election.

Political career:

Azhar Haroon, current president of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry is quoted to have said:

 "He had no political affiliation until 1999 but his polite discourse and professional ability impressed Nawaz Sharif, who made him governor of Sindh"

 He is a relatively less known figure, a Nawaz Sharif loyalist, and was elected as President of Pakistan as the official nominee of the PML-N in the July 2013 presidential election.

Hussain secured 432 votes and his only rival Wajihuddin Ahmed received 77. He took oath on 9 September 2013 in a prestigious ceremony held at Aiwan-i-Sadar,

 attended by main stream political and military leadership alongside foreign dignitaries, media personnel and his close relation.

Personal life:

Mamnoon Hussain hails from an Urdu-speaking family of shoe traders and was born in Agra, British India.

 He and his family migrated to Karachi in 1949 after the Partition of India in 1947.

He earned his degree from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi in the 1960s. 

Hussain was once president of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He briefly served as Governor of Sindh in 1999.