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Reposting an earlier post - article by Tarun Vijay:
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Not much is known about Pratibha Patil
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The <b>71-year-old Congress leader </b>is leading the race to become India's first woman president.

Pratibha Patil has been <b>Governor of Rajasthan for nearly three years</b>. She is not only the <b>first woman governor of the state, but also the only woman Governor in the country</b>.

The <b>former deputy chairperson of Rajya Sabha </b>is also a prominent leader from Maharashtra who once headed the Maharashtra Congress.



Patil has been <b>elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly five times</b> and has been a member of both the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha.

A <b>lawyer by profession</b>, she also runs <b>training institutes for the poor and the disabled</b>. She has a sporty edge and <b>was a Table Tennis champion</b> in her college days.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Nearly eight years after her tenure as Lok Sabha member had ended in 1996, Patil, <b>a staunch of Nehru-Gandhi family and a non-controversial personality</b>, had gone into a virtual political wilderness before she was brought in as Rajasthan governor in November 2004.
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