24 Facts About Ram Nath Kovind

Ram Nath Kovind is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the 14th president of India from 2017 to 2022.

Ram Nath Kovind is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Ram Nath Kovind served as a Member of Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2006.

Ram Nath Kovind was born in the Koli family of Maiku Lal and Kalawati during the British Raj on 1 October 1945, in Paraunkh village in the Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh, as the youngest of five brothers and two sisters.

Ram Nath Kovind's father Maikulal ran a shop and was a farmer and a local vaidya.

Ram Nath Kovind was only five when his mother died of burns when their thatched dwelling caught fire.

Ram Nath Kovind holds a bachelor's degree in commerce and an LLB from DAV College.

Ram Nath Kovind passed this exam on his third attempt, Ram Nath Kovind scored high enough to work in an allied service rather than in IAS and thus started practising law.

Ram Nath Kovind enrolled as an advocate in 1971 with the bar council of Delhi.

Ram Nath Kovind was Central Government Advocate in the Delhi High Court from 1977 to 1979.

Ram Nath Kovind practised in the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court until 1993.

Ram Nath Kovind joined the Bhartiya Janata Party in 1991.

Ram Nath Kovind was the president of the BJP Dalit Morcha between 1998 and 2002 and the president of the All-India Koli Samaj.

Ram Nath Kovind served as the national spokesperson of the party.

Ram Nath Kovind donated his ancestral home in Paraunkh to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Ram Nath Kovind was elected and became a Rajya Sabha MP from the state of Uttar Pradesh in April 1994.

Ram Nath Kovind served a total of twelve years, two consecutive terms, until March 2006.

Ram Nath Kovind served as the chairman of the Rajya Sabha House Committee.

Ram Nath Kovind has represented India at the UN and addressed the United Nations General Assembly in October 2002.

Ram Nath Kovind's appointment was criticised by then Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar as it came months before 2015 state Assembly elections and the appointment was made without consulting the state government as recommended by Sarkaria Commission.

Ram Nath Kovind is the first BJP candidate with RSS background to be elected to the post.

Ram Nath Kovind took the oath as the 14th president of India on 25 July 2017.

Ram Nath Kovind was succeeded by Droupadi Murmu on 25 July 2022.

Ram Nath Kovind has been criticized to maintain silence in the face of crimes against his own Dalit community and to support the government over the CAA protests, farmer agitation and the removal or abrogation of Article 370.