Full past history of Pratibhatai patil?

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Hon Pratibha Devisingh Patil (born December 19, Jalgaon, 1934) SHE is an Indian Congress (I) politician who is the frontrunner to become the next President of India on 19 July 2007.Her husband, Devisingh Ransingh Shekhawat is a prominent educator. A lawyer by training, Pratibha is the 16th Governor of Rajasthan and its first female governor . She is a former deputy chairperson of Rajya Sabha (India's upper house of parliament). Earlier she was a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, representing several constituencies from Jalgaon District from 1962 to 1985, and Member of Parliament from Amravati from 1991-1996. She is also currently the only woman state governor in india. She hails from Maharashtra and was President of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee. She completed her M.A. from M.J. College, Jalgaon, and obtained a Law Degree from the Government Law College, Mumbai. During her college days, she excelled in Table Tennis, winning several shields in inter-college tournaments In 1962, Pratibha Patil was voted "College Queen" of Mooljee Jaitha (MJ) College in Jalgaon. The same year, she got a party ticket to the Assembly election from Jalgaon constituency and went on to win the election with a huge margin. She married educator Devisingh Ransingh Shekhawat on July 7, 1965. The couple has a son and a daughter. Together with her husband, she set up an educational institute, Vidya Bharati Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, which runs a chain of schools and colleges in Jalgaon and Mumbai. She has also set up hostels for working women in New Delhi and Mumbai, an engineering college for rural youths in Jalgaon. She also founded and is the chairperson of a sugar factory in Jalgaon. She was also involved in setting up an Industrial Training School for the Blind in Jalgaon and running a school for poor children of Vimukta Jamatis & Nomadic Tribes. On 14th June, United Progressive Alliance(UPA), the ruling alliance of political parties in India headed by Congress (I), and the Indian left nominated her as their candidate for the Presidential Election to be held on 19 July 2007. She emerged as a compromise candidate after the Left parties would not agree to the nomination of present Home Minister Shivraj Patil, who is widely viewed as bordering on incompetence in this important post. At that point, Sonia Gandhi, who has a plurality in Parliament, proposed Pratibha Patil's name. This makes her most likely to become the first female President of India. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi described her nomination as a "historic occasion" in India'a 60th year of independence. Although NDA parties are yet to voice their support for Pratibha Patil, barring extremely unexpected events, it is fairly certain that she will go on to become India's first woman president. Before leaving for New Delhi, she thanked Sonia Gandhi for choosing her and said that her first job as president would be to make National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) started by UPA a success.