1. Ram Nath Kovind is the first person from Uttar Pradesh to serve as the president.
24 Facts About Ram Nath Kovind
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Ram Nath Kovind is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the first person from the party to become the president.
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Ram Nath Kovind served as a Member of Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2006.
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Ram Nath Kovind's father Maikulal ran a shop and was a farmer and a local vaidya.
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Ram Nath Kovind was born in a mud hut, which eventually collapsed.
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Ram Nath Kovind was only five when his mother died of burns when their thatched dwelling caught fire.
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Ram Nath Kovind holds a bachelor's degree in commerce and an LLB from DAV College.
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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.
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Ram Nath Kovind enrolled as an advocate in 1971 with the bar council of Delhi.
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Ram Nath Kovind was Central Government Advocate in the Delhi High Court from 1977 to 1979.
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Ram Nath Kovind practised in the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court until 1993.
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Ram Nath Kovind joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1991.
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Ram Nath Kovind was the president of the BJP Dalit Morcha between 1998 and 2002 and the president of the All-India Koli Samaj.
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Ram Nath Kovind served as the national spokesperson of the party.
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Ram Nath Kovind donated his ancestral home in Paraunkh to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
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Ram Nath Kovind was elected and became a Rajya Sabha MP from the state of Uttar Pradesh in April 1994.
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Ram Nath Kovind served a total of twelve years, two consecutive terms, until March 2006.
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Ram Nath Kovind served as the chairman of the Rajya Sabha House Committee.
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Ram Nath Kovind has represented India at the UN and addressed the United Nations General Assembly in October 2002.
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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.
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Ram Nath Kovind is the first BJP candidate with RSS background to be elected to the post.
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Ram Nath Kovind took the oath as the 14th president of India on 25 July 2017.
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Ram Nath Kovind was succeeded by Droupadi Murmu on 21 July 2022.
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In September 2023, the Government of India formed an 8-member committee chaired by Ram Nath Kovind to suggest changes to the constitution for simultaneous polls in the country.