Pratibha Devisingh Patil (born December 19, Jalgaon, 1934) is an Indian Congress (I) politician who is the frontrunner to become the next President of India on 19 July 2007. A lawyer by training, she is the 16th Governor of Rajasthan and its first woman governor. She is a former deputy chairperson of the upper house of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (1986-88).Earlier, from 1962 to 1985 Pratibha Patil was elected continuously to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, representing several constituencies from Jalgaon District. From 1991-96, she was Member of Parliament from Amravati. Notably, she has never lost an election that she had contested in.

                                                     

Governor of Rajasthan

In November 2004, eight years after she had completed her term in the 10th Lok Sabha, Pratibha Patil was recalled from political hibernation^[1] to become the first woman Governor of Rajasthan. She was the second politician from Maharashtra in this post, the first being Vasantdada Patil. With Pratibha Patil as Governor, Rajasthan had women in three significant positions of power in the state, including Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and Assembly Speaker Sumitra Singh^[11].

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.^[16]. 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 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 Jaipur 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.^[17]

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