Ram Nath Kovind elected as President of India

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Given below are contents of my recent Facebook post-shares related to the election of Shri Ram Nath Kovind as the 14th president of India.


Congratulations to Shri Ram Nath Kovind Ji on being elected the President of India! Best wishes for a fruitful & inspiring tenure.



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Around 6 min. video giving a profile of the newly elected President-elect of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind. The video starts with a few seconds of Hindi, but continues mostly in English. The video shows the village he was born and raised in (till some part of his schooling was done; he left his village at the age of 12), and shows that he came from a very humble background. His father ran a small grocery shop in that village. They had to sell some land they owned to fund Ram Nath Kovind's higher studies!

It mentions that Kovind knew the Ramayana by heart at a young age, and that he is a strict vegetarian!

Wonderful to see a person rise from humble background and from the Dalit (so called 'lower caste' in India) community, through various positions to the position of President-elect (and so soon to be President) of India.

Here's the Facebook video link: https://www.facebook.com/cnnnews18/videos/10156413624909202/

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From https://www.facebook.com/thebetterindia/photos/a.10151330860254594.494993.320413289593/10155564259759594/

NDA's presidential candidate and former Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind was elected India's 14th President today. He secured a vote value of 7,02,044, over 65% of the total 10,98,882. He defeated the Congress-led opposition's candidate Meira Kumar, who managed to get a vote value of 3,67,314.
News Courtesy: inshorts



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The Hindi words in the U.S. Embassy India message translates to "Congratulations to the world's largest democracy from the world's oldest democracy".

From (Indian embassy Facebook post) 


Congratulations Ram Nath Kovind, the 14th #President of India! दुनिया के सबसे पुराने लोकतंत्र की ओर से सबसे बड़े लोकतंत्र को बधाई। 

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Ram Nath Kovind (born 1 October 1945) is an Indian politician who will succeed the incumbent president Pranab Mukherjee as the President of India on 25 July 2017. He was the Governor of Bihar from 2015 to 2017. He had also served as the Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2006.
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Kovind was born in Kanpur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh. His father was a farmer. He holds a Bachelors degree in commerce and a LLB from DAV College, (affiliated with Kanpur University).
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After graduating in law from a Kanpur college, Kovind went to Delhi to prepare for the civil services examination. He passed this exam on his third attempt, but he did not join as he was selected for an allied service instead of IAS and thus started practicing law. He was Central Government Advocate in the Delhi High Court from 1977 to 1979 and served as a Central Government standing counsel in the Supreme Court from 1980 to 1993. In 1978, he became an advocate-on-record of the Supreme Court of India. He practiced in the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court for about 16 years until 1993. He was also enrolled as an advocate in 1971 with the bar council of Delhi. As an advocate he provided free legal aid to weaker sections of society, women and the poor under the Free Legal Aid Society in New Delhi. He also served as the personal assistant of Prime Minister of India Morarji Desai in 1977-1978.
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He joined the BJP in 1991. He was President of the BJP Dalit Morcha between 1998 and 2002 and President of the All-India Koli Samaj. He also served as national spokesperson of the party. He donated his ancestral home in Derapur to the RSS. He contested from Ghatampur and Bhognipur (both in Uttar Pradesh) assembly constituencies on the BJP ticket but lost both elections.
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He was elected and became a Rajya Sabha MP from the state of Uttar Pradesh in April 1994. He served a total of twelve years, two consecutive terms, until March 2006. As a member of parliament he served on the Parliamentary Committee for Welfare of Scheduled Castes/Tribes, Home Affairs, Petroleum and Natural Gas, Social Justice and Empowerment, Law and Justice. He also served as the chairman of the Rajya Sabha House Committee. During his career as a parliamentarian, under M.P. L.A.D. Scheme, he focused on education in rural areas by helping in construction of school buildings in Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand. As a member of parliament, he visited Thailand, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom and the United States on study tours.
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He has served on the Board of management of Dr. B.R Ambedkar University, Lucknow and (was) on the Board of Governors of IIM Calcutta. He has also represented India at the UN and addressed the United Nations General Assembly in October 2002.
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On 8 August 2015, the President of India appointed Kovind as Governor of Bihar. On 16 August 2015, the acting Chief Justice of Patna High Court, Iqbal Ahmad Ansari, administered the oath to Kovind as the 36th Governor of Bihar. The function took place at Raj Bhawan, Patna.

As Governor, he was praised for constituting a judicial commission to investigate irregularities in promotion of undeserving teachers, mis-management of funds and appointment of undeserving candidates in universities.
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[I thank Facebook posts of Narendra Modi, cnnnews18, thebetterindia, the Indian Embassy and wikipedia and have presumed that they will not have any objections to me sharing the above short extracts & pics from their website on this post which is freely viewable by all, and does not have any financial profit motive whatsoever.]

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