Pratibha Patil was the first woman President of the country to say, but what was the respect of the post of President and prime minister in front of congress President sonia gandhi at that time - it is well known to all. Still people on social media are calling him 'Worst President' and naming Dr rajendra prasad and APJ Abdul Kalam as the best President. At the same time, people are also praising pranab mukherjee and Ramnath Kovind.


Pratibha Patil has been one of sonia Gandhi's confidants. While being the President, he was accused of wasting extra money from the taxpayers on his foreign trips. The government expenditure on foreign trips of him and his family was around Rs 205 crore. When she used to go abroad for holidays, her family members also accompanied her, especially the grandchildren. Once, even while celebrating holidays in Goa, his picture went viral.




Not only this, whatever gifts the President gets, she also took them to her house in Amravati, Maharashtra. These have to be deposited in the 'National Treasury'. He was later asked to hand over 150 such gifts back to Rashtrapati Bhavan. In 2012, pratibha patil along with her family went on a trip to seychelles and South Africa. At least 3 to 11 family members of his family accompanied him on 14 domestic and 4 foreign trips.



During several state visits between 2009-10, her husband Devisingh Shekhawat, son Rajendra Singh Shekhawat, daughter-in-law Manjari Shekhawat, daughter Shekhawat and son-in-law Jayesh Shekhawat, besides her son-daughter children Surbhi Shekhawat, prithvi Singh Shekhawat, Dhruvesh Rathod and divya Rathod stayed with him. All these were given all the facilities of 'Presidential Guests'. He must have been accompanied by at least two family members during his travels to Poland, Spain, Russia, Tajikistan, UK, cyprus and China.




The then manmohan singh government had defended it, calling it "normal diplomatic procedure". 'Air India' on foreign trips of pratibha patil and her family. 169 crores and always used Boeing 747-400 for them. Apart from this, the Ministry of External Affairs spent Rs 36 crore separately for other expenses. pratibha patil spent 79 days abroad. In a total of 12 foreign trips, she visited 22 countries on 4 continents.



After retirement, news of Pratibha Patil's plan to build a house on Defense Ministry land in pune also surfaced. Her family runs the 'Vidya Bharati Shikshak Mandal', in whose museum 150 gifts he received as President were kept. After pranab mukherjee became the President, the secretariat asked him to hand it all back. These included a stone box given by the US President, a candle set by the british PM, a wooden framed picture of the President of Vietnam, a memento given by the FIFA President, a Chinese gift box and Nelson Mandela's gold and silver medals.

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