Ram Nath Kovind will shortly be sworn in as the 14th President of the country. The former Governor of Bihar, nominated by the BJP-led NDA, won the presidential election last week receiving over 7 lakh votes in the Electoral College and defeating Opposition candidate Meira Kumar.
Kovind will be the country’s second Dalit President after KR Narayanan. Before becoming the Governor of Bihar, he served as a BJP MP in the Rajya Sabha and headed the party’s SC-ST wing for a while. The 71-year-old has held key positions in parliamentary committees during his 12-year stint as a lawmaker. A lawyer by training, Kovind has addressed the United Nations as India’s representative in 2002. Kovind practised at both the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court for 16 years.
Born on October 1, 1945 in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur Dehat district, he comes from a modest background and has worked his way up from the ground to the top of the political pyramid. Kovind has helped in providing free legal aid to backward and weaker sections of the society, with a special focus on SC/ST women, poor and the elderly.
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