President Pranab Mukherjee will felicitate senior Congress leader and former Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde tomorrow at a function to mark his 75th birthday in his native Solapur in Maharashtra.
The President will be the chief guest at the function in which a galaxy of leaders including Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and NCP chief Sharad Pawar would be present.
The organisers said Maharashtra Governor Vidyasagar Rao would also attend the function.
Born on September 4, 1941 in Solapur, Shinde had a humble beginning as a bail-boy in the Solapur sessions court where he served from 1957 until 1964. He then joined the Maharashtra State Police and served as sub-inspector in Mumbai CID for six years, before plunging into politics.
A former Maharashtra Chief Minister, Shinde served as Governor of Andhra Pradesh from October 2004 to January 2006. He also served as Union Power Minister from 2006 to 2012 and later as country's Home Minister in 2012 and served that position till May 2014.
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