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Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was the fifth President of India and a politician. Explore interesting quotes on close.

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“He was a close friend of Zakir Husain, the third President of India. It was a coincidence and a tribute to their friendship that both occupied the highest position of the land, died in harness of heart failure and collapsed in the same bathroom of the Rashtrapathi Bhavan.”

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

Source: Presidents of India, 1950-2003, P.108

“As a student in England he had befriended Jawaharlal Nehru whose progressive ideas had influenced him, and who became his close friend and mentor.”

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

Source: First among equals President of India, P.50

“He was very close to Jawaharlal Nehru. He could have joined the Central Cabinet much earlier but the Chief Minister of Assam, wanted him to work with him and resisted his going to the centre.”

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

Source: Presidents of India, 1950-2003, p. 104