FILE PHOTO: India’s President Pranab Mukherjee delivers a speech at a reception in Beijing, China, May 25, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Lee
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - During five decades in Indian politics, Pranab Mukherjee, who died on Monday after a lung infection, led some of the nation's most powerful ministries and eventually became its president, but the ultimate prize still eluded him: the prime ministership.
Mukherjee tested positive for COVID-19 on Aug. 10 and had been in hospital since. He was 84.
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