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‎Ram Nath Kovind, the 14th President of India

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Shivam: /* Ram NathKovind, the 14th President of India */

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‎Ram NathKovind, the 14th President of India

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‎Brief biography

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‎Career

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‎Turned back from President's Shimla home: May 2017

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 . On August 8, 2015, Kovind was appointed governor of Bihar.
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	[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bihar-governor-ram-nath-kovind-10-facts-about-ndas-presidential-nominee/articleshow/59216836.cms Bihar governor Ram Nath Kovind: 10 facts about NDA's Presidential nominee\| Jun 19, 2017 \| IndiaTimes/ ''The Times of India'']		[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bihar-governor-ram-nath-kovind-10-facts-about-ndas-presidential-nominee/articleshow/59216836.cms Bihar governor Ram Nath Kovind: 10 facts about NDA's Presidential nominee\| Jun 19, 2017 \| IndiaTimes/ ''The Times of India'']
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	In order to expand the party's base, Kalyan took BJP in rural areas, among farmers, backwards, most backwards and the dalits. Sources said when Kovind met Kalyan, he told him that “you are not the UP assembly material and you rather deserve a Rajya Sabha seat“. And Kalyan sent Kovind to the RS in 1994. He was re-nominated in 2000 and remained in the Upper House for 12 years, though he never won an election.		In order to expand the party's base, Kalyan took BJP in rural areas, among farmers, backwards, most backwards and the dalits. Sources said when Kovind met Kalyan, he told him that “you are not the UP assembly material and you rather deserve a Rajya Sabha seat“. And Kalyan sent Kovind to the RS in 1994. He was re-nominated in 2000 and remained in the Upper House for 12 years, though he never won an election.
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		+	=Presidency=
		+	==2017-18==
		+	[[File: President Ram Nath Kovind contributions as President, 2017-18.jpg\| President Ram Nath Kovind contributions as President, 2017-18 <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F07%2F26&entity=Ar01719&sk=B19101FA&mode=text July 26, 2018: ''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	'' President Ram Nath Kovind contributions as President, 2017-18 ''

	=Political ideology: Quotas for SC/ ST/ OBC=		=Political ideology: Quotas for SC/ ST/ OBC=

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 However, his views on Dalit converts and caste quotas in minority institutions are in line with BJP's stand and also find favour with the Dalit community. The opposition will also highlight that Kovind had testified in favour of disgraced BJP chief Bangaru Laxman who was later convicted for corruption.
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 [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/shimla/when-ram-nath-kovind-was-turned-back-from-presidents-shimla-home/articleshow/59227207.cms   Anand Bodh | When Ram Nath Kovind was turned back from President's Shimla home | Jun 20, 2017 | IndiaTimes/ ''The Times of India'']

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	His political journey was mainly centred around the rights and uplift of the weaker sections of the society. Apart from being the chief of the BJP's SCST wing, Kovind had joined the SCST employees' movement against the central government in 1997 to protest against some government orders. Later, the orders were termed null and void by the passage of three amendments to the Constitution during the first NDA regime. In Bihar, he was widely acclaimed for constituting a judicial commission to check irregularities in promotion of undeserving teachers, bungling of funds and appointment of undeserving candidates in universities.		His political journey was mainly centred around the rights and uplift of the weaker sections of the society. Apart from being the chief of the BJP's SCST wing, Kovind had joined the SCST employees' movement against the central government in 1997 to protest against some government orders. Later, the orders were termed null and void by the passage of three amendments to the Constitution during the first NDA regime. In Bihar, he was widely acclaimed for constituting a judicial commission to check irregularities in promotion of undeserving teachers, bungling of funds and appointment of undeserving candidates in universities.
		+	==Mentored by Kalyan Singh==
		+	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=A-product-of-Kalyan-Singh-lab-24062017008005 Subhash Mishra\| A product of Kalyan Singh lab\| Jun 24 2017 \| The Times of India (Delhi)]
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		+	Ram Nath Kovind, the NDA presidential candidate, was a product of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh's initiative to expand the BJP's base by promoting leaders from the marginalised sections of society.
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		+	Before joining BJP in 1990, Kovind practised law and did social work. He worked with first non-Congress PM Morarji Desai, and during that time he met the then foreign minister and Jan Sangh leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
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		+	After he failed to win his first election on a BJP ticket in 1991, Kovind met Kalyan, who was then the most prominent leader of the saffron party and chief minister of UP. At that time, Kalyan was trying to expand the party's base beyond Brahmins and banias, and was trying to bring marginalised sections, most backwards and Dalits, into BJP.That's why the UP BJP of early 90s is called the “caste laboratory of Kalyan Singh“ which produced leaders like Om Prakash Singh, Ram Prasad Kamal and Hari Narain Rajbhar from the marginalised sections and succeeded in dispelling the notion that the party was a “BrahminBania“ party .
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		+	In order to expand the party's base, Kalyan took BJP in rural areas, among farmers, backwards, most backwards and the dalits. Sources said when Kovind met Kalyan, he told him that “you are not the UP assembly material and you rather deserve a Rajya Sabha seat“. And Kalyan sent Kovind to the RS in 1994. He was re-nominated in 2000 and remained in the Upper House for 12 years, though he never won an election.
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		+	=Political ideology: Quotas for SC/ ST/ OBC=
		+	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Oppn-to-attack-Kovinds-commitment-to-quotas-24062017008015 Subodh Ghildiyal\| Oppn to attack Kovind's commitment to quotas \| Jun 24 2017 \| The Times of India (Delhi)]
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		+	In a speech on December 17, 2004, Kovind had said reservations over 50-odd years had led to bitterness between reserved castes (SCsSTs OBCs) and general castes, and “both are justified“. He said SCsSTs were concerned that their share of 22.5% in jobs was not filled in decades as the administration of quotas was in the hands of non-reserved castes. On the other hand, he said the non-reserved castes were “also justified in saying how will reservation, which was to last only 10 or 20 years, continue“?
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		+	“If you see it from their perspective, they are justified. They must be thinking... if they (SCs STs) have suffered injustice for centuries, will reservation also continue for centuries. I think both sections of society are justified in their argument.But there is a communication gap. It will be good...if they all sit across the table and find out an amicable solution. After all, you cannot carry on with reservation for years. If you do, it will lead to bitterness in society . But it is also correct if (SCsSTs) don't get reservation and don't attain equality , then what is the use of reservations? This is a ticklish question,“ he had said.
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		+	Among Kovind's other thoughts were introducing compulsory voting, limiting the number of parties contesting polls to three, and no recognition to post-poll alliances.
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		+	The opposition seems to be making an issue of “pluralism“ by saying Kovind in 2010 publicly opposed SC status for Dalit converts to Christianity and Islam -as recommended by the Rangnath Misra Commission. In 2005, in RS, he sought introduction of SCST quotas in minority institutions, which are exempted.
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		+	However, his views on Dalit converts and caste quotas in minority institutions are in line with BJP's stand and also find favour with the Dalit community. The opposition will also highlight that Kovind had testified in favour of disgraced BJP chief Bangaru Laxman who was later convicted for corruption.

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