Ram Nath Kovind

Ram Nath Kovind (; born 1 October 1945) is an Indian

Ram Nath Kovind
politician and lawyer who served as the 14th president of
India from 2017 to 2022. He is the first person from Uttar
Pradesh to serve as President of India. He is a member of
the Bharatiya Janata Party and also the first person from
BJP to become the President of India. Prior to his
presidency, he served as the 26th Governor of Bihar from
2015 to 2017.[2][3] He also served as a Member of Rajya
Sabha from 1994 to 2006. Before entering politics, he was
a lawyer for 16 years and practised in the Delhi High Court
and the Supreme Court of India until 1993.[4]

Early life and education

Ram Nath Kovind was born to Maiku Lal and Kalawati in a
Dalit family during the British Raj on 1 October 1945, in Official portrait, 2017
Paraunkh village in the Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar 14th President of India
Pradesh,[5][6] as the youngest of five brothers and two In office
sisters.[7][8] His father Maikulal ran a shop and was also a 25 July 2017 – 25 July 2022
farmer and a local vaidya.[9] His mother Kalawati was a Prime Minister Narendra Modi
homemaker.[10] Kovind was born in a mud hut, which
Vice President Mohammad Hamid
eventually collapsed.[11][12][13] He was only five when his
Ansari
mother died of burns when their thatched dwelling caught
M. Venkaiah Naidu
fire. Kovind later donated the land to the community.[14]
Preceded by Pranab Mukherjee
After his elementary school education, he needed to walk
Succeeded by Droupadi Murmu
each day to Kanpur village, 8 km (5.0 mi) away, to attend
26th Governor of Bihar
junior school, as nobody in the village had a bicycle.[15] He
holds a bachelor's degree in commerce and an LLB from In office
DAV College (affiliated with Kanpur University).[16][17][18] 16 August 2015 – 21 June 2017
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar

Early career Preceded by Keshari Nath Tripathi

Succeeded by Keshari Nath Tripathi
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Advocate
In office
After graduating in law from DAV College, Kanpur, Kovind 3 April 1994 – 2 April 2006
went to Delhi to prepare for the civil services examination.
Preceded by Subramanian Swamy
He passed this exam on his third attempt, He scored high
Succeeded by Vinay Katiyar
enough to work in an allied service rather than in IAS and
thus started practising law.[19] Constituency Uttar Pradesh
Personal details
Kovind enrolled as an advocate in 1971 with the bar Born 1 October 1945
council of Delhi. He was Central Government Advocate in Paraunkh, United
the Delhi High Court from 1977 to 1979. Between 1977 and Provinces, British India
1978, he also served as the personal assistant of Prime (present-day Uttar
Minister of India Morarji Desai.[20] In 1978, he became an Pradesh, India)
advocate-on-record of the Supreme Court of India and Political party Bharatiya Janata Party
served as a standing counsel for the Central Government
Spouse Savita Kovind ​(m. 1974)
in the Supreme Court of India from 1980 to 1993. He
practised in the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court until Children 2
1993. As an advocate, he provided pro-bono aid to weaker Parents Maikulal (father)
sections of society, women and the poor under the Free Kalawati (mother)
Legal Aid Society of New Delhi.[16]
Residence(s) 12 Janpath, New Delhi,
Delhi, India[1]
Start of political career Alma mater Kanpur University
He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1991.[20]He (B.Com., LL.B.)
was the president of the BJP Dalit Morcha between 1998 Occupation Politician · lawyer
and 2002 and the president of the All-India Koli Samaj. Signature
He also served as the national spokesperson of the
party.[21] He donated his ancestral home in Paraunkh to
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.[20] Soon after joining
the BJP, he contested Ghatampur assembly constituency, but
lost and later contested Bhognipur in 2007 elections (both in
Uttar Pradesh) assembly constituency on the BJP ticket but lost
again.[22]

In 1997, Kovind, joined the protest against certain orders from Former MP Kovind at a function with
the central government that had adverse effects on the SC/ST Prime Minister Narendra Modi
workers. Later, three amendments were made to the opening a bridge in Bihar, 2016
Constitution that revoked the orders, by the NDA government
headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.[23]

Rajya Sabha
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 the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme, he focused
on education in rural areas by helping in the construction of school buildings in Uttar Pradesh and
Uttarakhand. As a member of parliament, he visited Thailand, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore,
Germany, Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States on study tours.[17]

Other appointments
He has served on the Board of management of Dr. B.R Ambedkar University, Lucknow, and 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.[24]

Governor of Bihar (2015–2017)

On 8 August 2015, President Pranab Mukherjee appointed
Kovind as the governor of Bihar.[25] On 16 August 2015, the
acting Chief Justice of Patna High Court, Iqbal Ahmad Ansari,
administered the oath to Kovind as the 26th governor of Bihar,
in a ceremony at Raj Bhawan in Patna.[26]

Kovind's appointment was criticised by then Chief Minister of

Bihar Nitish Kumar as it came months before 2015 state
Governor Ram Nath Kovind of Bihar
Assembly elections and the appointment was made without
welcoming President Pranab
consulting the state government as recommended by Sarkaria
Mukherjee at Patna on 17 April 2017
Commission.[27] However, Kovind's term as the governor was
praised for constituting a judicial commission to investigate
irregularities in promotion of undeserving teachers, mismanagement of funds and appointment of
undeserving candidates in universities.[20] In June 2017, when he was announced as a candidate
for presidential election, Nitish Kumar backed his choice and praised him as being unbiased and
working closely with the state government during his governorship.[28]

Presidential election
After nomination for the post of 14th president of India, he resigned from his post as the governor
of Bihar, and the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, accepted his resignation on 20 June
2017.[29] He won the election on 20 July 2017.[30]

Kovind received 65.65% of the valid votes, against former Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Meira Kumar,
the presidential candidate of the Opposition who received 34.35%. Kovind received 2,930 votes
(From MPs and MLAs) amounting to Electoral College votes of 702,044 (65.65%) as compared to
1,844 votes with a value of 367,314 (34.35%) votes for Meira Kumar lagging far behind with
367,314 votes, and 77 votes were invalid.[31] He is the first BJP candidate with RSS background to
be elected to the post.[32] The tally of votes (367,314) polled by Meira Kumar is only the second-
highest for a losing candidate, that of Neelam Sanjiva Reddy in the 1969 presidential elections
being the highest ever; he received 405,427 votes as against 420,077 by V. V. Giri, the winner.

Presidency (2017–2022)
Ram Nath Kovind took the oath as the 14th president of India
on 25 July 2017.[33] In his 5-year term he addressed the
Parliament of India five times. First address was upon taking
oath, and subsequent four addresses were to joint sitting of
both houses from 2018 to 2021. Kovind in his tenure
administered oath of office to three Chief Justices of India and
29 other judges of Supreme Court of India. He was succeeded
by Droupadi Murmu on 21 July 2022. J. S. Khehar, Chief Justice of India,
administering the oath of the office
of the President-elect Kovind, at a
Post presidency swearing-in ceremony in the central
hall of Parliament, in New Delhi in
2017
Panel on "One Nation, One Election "
In September 2023, the Government of India formed an 8-
member committee chaired by Kovind to suggest changes to the constitution for simultaneous
polls in the country. The primary objective of this committee, is to examine and propose specific
amendments to the Representation of the People Act, 1951, and any other relevant laws and
regulations to enable simultaneous elections.[34]

Personal life
Kovind married Savita on 30 May 1974. They have a son,
Prashant Kumar, and a daughter, Swati who is an air hostess
for Air India.[18][35]

Political positions
In 2010, he was reported to have said that "Islam and
Christianity are alien to the nation" as spokesperson of the
President Kovind with his wife First
BJP.[36][37] As reported by IANS and published by Hindustan
Lady Savita Kovind
Times, he made this comment in response to the Ranganath
Misra Commission which recommended 15 per cent
reservation for religious and linguistic minorities in government jobs.[38] Although more recently,
the issue was raised in the media if whether or not he was misquoted and that he in fact said "Islam
and Christianity are alien to the notion (of caste)" as opposed to what was reported as
'nation'.[39][40]

State honours
Decoration Country Date Note Ref.

National Grand Cross 2nd Class, the

14 March [41]
Order of highest civilian honour of
Madagascar 2018
Madagascar Madagascar.

Order of Equatorial Grand Collar, the highest civilian [42]

8 April 2018
Independence Guinea honour of Equatorial Guinea.

Order of the Collar, the highest civilian [43]

Eswatini 9 April 2018
Lion honour of Eswatini.

Grand Order
26 March The highest civilian honour of [44]
of King Croatia
2019 Croatia.
Tomislav
Order of the
26 March Grand Collar, the highest civilian [45]
Condor of the Bolivia
2019 honour of Bolivia.
Andes

National 3 August Grand Cross, the highest civilian [46]

Guinea
Order of Merit 2019 honour of Guinea.

See also
Presidency of Ram Nath Kovind
President of India

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