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India's new president Ram Nath Kovind

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Published: 12:11, 20 July 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
India's new president Ram Nath Kovind

International Desk: NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind has been elected India's 14th president, having obtained 65.65 percent of electoral college votes.

Former governor of Bihar, Kovind (71), is going to be the second Dalit leader after RK Narayanan since Independence to occupy India's highest ceremonial post.

In the final vote count, Ram Nath Kovind received 702,044 electoral college votes (65.65 percent), while UPA candidate Meira Kumar managed to get 367,314 votes (34.35 percent).

According to reports, there was cross voting in UP, Gujarat and Goa during the elections, which resulted into Kovind's massive 2/3rd votes.

522 MPs voted for Kovind, while 225 parliamentarians voted for Meira Kumar.

Current President Pranab Mukherjee's term is ending on July 24 and Kovind will take oath the next day to become India's 14th President.

In the last Presidential polls held in 2012, Pranab Mukherjee had defeated PA Sangma by over 69 per cent votes.

Source: Agencies


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