Rajendra Prasad

Trivia

• He was the first President of Independent India.
• Rajendra Prasad was an independence activist and, as a leader of the Congress Party,
• He played a leading role in the Indian Independence Movement.
• He served as President of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the constitution of the Republic from 1948 to 1950.
• He had also served as a Cabinet Minister briefly in the first Government of Independent India.
• His father, Mahadev Sahai, was a Persian and Sanskrit language scholar, his mother, Kamleshwari Devi, was a saintly lady who would tell stories from the Ramayana to her son.
• At the age of five, the young Rajendra Prasad was sent to a Maulavi for learning Persian.
• He was married at the age of 12 to Rajvanshi Devi.
• He went on to study at R.K. Ghosh`s Academy in Patna to be with his elder brother Mahendra Prasad.
• At the age of 18, Rajendra Prasad again joined the Chhapra Zilla School and from there passed the entrance examination of Calcutta University.