Who is current president of india

Ram Nath Kovind, (born October 1, 1945, Paraukh, Uttar Pradesh state, India), Indian lawyer and politician who served as Kovind grew up in humble circumstances in a small agrarian village where his father farmed and ran a small Kovind worked in the Delhi Free Legal Aid Society, and he also served (1971–75, 1981) as general secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Koli Samaj, an organization serving the interests of the In 1991 Kovind joined the BJP, and three years later he was elected to the In June 2017 the BJP announced Kovind as the party’s candidate to succeed

NEW DELHI: NDA’s presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu on Thursday became the first tribal woman to be elected as President of India by defeating her rival, opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha, by a margin of 947 votes, bagging 64.03% of the electoral college votes against Sinha’s share of 35.97%. Murmu, 64, is only the second former member of BJP after President Ram Nath Kovind to be elected President. She bagged votes from a total of 2,824 electors, including 540 MPs, while Sinha won the support of 1,877 electors, including 208 MPs. READ ALSO: Though the results of the presidential contest were a foregone conclusion, and the opposition managers had no illusions about the eventual verdict, the anti-BJP bloc can derive some satisfaction from the fact that their tally was better than what they had achieved five years ago when the NDA nominee beat opposition’s candidate Meira Kumar. 93038721 In fact, Murmu’s first preference vote share — 64.03% — is the lowest since President V V Giri’s 48.01% in the 1969 presidential polls. However, there are doubts that the opposition managed to achieve the objective they sought to realise by pitching this as a battle of ideologies. The support of parties like BSP and JD(S) for Murmu, the last-minute dramatic defection of her fellow Santhal, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, and confusing messages from senior figures like TMC boss Mamata Banerjee muddied the message. On top of that, by the time the counting got over, there was strong evidence of MP...