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President of India from to

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (13 May – 11 February ) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the fifth president of India from to

Born in Delhi, Ahmed studied in Delhi and Cambridge and was called to the bar from the Inner Temple, London in Returning to India, he practiced law in Lahore and then in Guwahati. Beginning a long association with the Indian National Congress in the s, Ahmed was finance minister of Assam in the Gopinath Bordoloi ministry in He became the Advocate General of Assam in , and was finance minister again from to under Bimala Prasad Chaliha. He was made a national cabinet minister by Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi in and was in charge of various ministries including Power, Irrigation, Industries and Agriculture. He was elected president of India over Tridib Chaudhuri in

As president, Ahmed imposed The Emergency in August and gave his assent to numerous ordinances and constitutional amendments that severel