Ram Nath Kovind-14th President of India

Ram Nath Kovind-14th President of India

NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind has been elected the country’s 14th president. The Lok Sabha Secretary General, Anoop Mishra, has declared that Ram Nath Kovind has been elected as the President of India. The former governor of Bihar, Kovind, will be only the second Dalit leader after RK Narayanan since Independence to occupy India’s highest ceremonial post. 

In the final vote count, 


  • NDA nominee Kovind received 65.6 per cent votes translating into 702,044 electoral college votes, 
  • while UPA candidate Meira Kumar managed to get 34.35 per cent (367,314 votes) out of a total of 10,69,358.. 


According to reports, there was cross voting in  in UP, Gujarat and Goa during the elections, which resulted into Kovind’s massive 2/3rd votes.  522 MPs voted for Kovind, while 225 parliamentarians voted for Meira Kumar. 

Current President Pranab Mukherjee’s term is ending on July 24 and Kovind will take oath the next day to become India’s 14th President. In the last Presidential polls held in 2012, Pranab Mukherjee had defeated PA Sangma by over 69 per cent votes. 


Born on October 1, 1945, in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur Dehat, Ram Nath Kovind was the youngest among three brothers. After graduating in law from a Kanpur college, Kovind had gone to Delhi to prepare for the Indian Administrative Services. He failed to pass it twice but made it in third attempt. He, however, did not join as he was selected for the allied services and started practising the law.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT RAM NATH KOVIND

  • Born on October 1, 1945 in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur Dehat, Ram Nath Kovind was a lawyer by profession. He practised as an advocate for the Central Government at Delhi High Court from 1977 to 1979. He was a permanent advocate for the Centre at the Supreme Court between 1980 and 1993.
  • The BJP-led Centre had appointed Ram Nath Kovind, 76, as Bihar Governor in August 2015 with a view to wooing the Dalits in the state Assembly elections held in December that year.
  • Ram Nath Kovind was a Rajya Sabha member between 1994 and 2006 from Uttar Pradesh. As Rajya Sabha MP, he visited Thailand, Nepal, Germany, Switzerland, France, United Kingdom, Pakistan and United States of America on study tours.
  • Kovind was member of the Parliamentary Committees for SC/ST welfare, home ministry, petroleum and natural gas, social justice and rights, and law and justice. He was also the chairman of Rajya Sabha housing committee.
  • Ram Nath Kovind was a member of management board for Dr BR Ambedkar University, Lucknow and Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
  • Kovind represented India at United Nations in New York and addressed the General Assembly in October 2002.
  • Ram Nath Kovind was the BJP's SC cell president from 1998 to 2002. He was also BJP's national spokesperson.
  • Ram Nath Kovind was also the member of BJP's National Executive Committee as a permanent invitee.

THE JOURNEY

  • Born in Paraunkh village of Derapur tehsil in Kanpur rural, Uttar Pradesh, Kovind is the youngest among three brothers. He completed his primary and pre-middle school education from Khanpur in Sandalpur block. He passed intermediate examination from Kanpur and bachelors in Commerce from DAV College. He became a law graduate from DAV Law College, Kanpur.
  • Thereafter, Kovind moved to the national capital to prepare for Civil Services examination. He cleared the coveted exams in his third attempt. However, he turned out the job offer as he was selected in the Allied Services.
  • Ram Nath Kovind started his career as a lawyer in the Supreme Court. After the formation of Janata Party government in 1977, he became private secretary to the then prime minister Morarji Desai. He also worked as a junior counsellor for the Janata Party government in the Supreme Court. He subsequently came in contact of the BJP leaders.
  • BJP fielded him as a Lok Sabha candidate from Ghatampur in UP in 1990. However, he lost the election.
  • In 2007, BJP gave him a ticket for UP Assembly election from Bhognipur constituency. However, he lost that election too.

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