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President-elect <keyword id="6354561" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ram-Nath-Kovind">Ram Nath Kovind</keyword> is India’s 14th President and will be heading to Raisina Hills. Kovind scored an easy win over his opponent, <keyword id="6408326" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Meira-Kumar">Meira Kumar</keyword>, a former <keyword id="6355187" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Lok-Sabha">Lok Sabha</keyword> Speaker. Kovind is the second Dalit President of India after KR Narayanan. He is Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword>'s choice and his candidature was dubbed as a masterstroke to divide the opposition and keep allies together. His name was also suggested as a move to cement the backward castes. Now that he will be living in the sprawling Rashtrapati Bhawan, here are 10 things you need to know about him

10 things you need to know about new President-elect Ram Nath Kovind

The result of India’s Presidential election will be out by today evening 5pm and the counting of votes is underway. The fight is between BJP-led NDA candidate <keyword id="6354561" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ram-Nath-Kovind">Ram Nath Kovind</keyword> and Congress-led UPA nominee <keyword id="6408326" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Meira-Kumar">Meira Kumar</keyword>. As per various reports, Kovind, former Bihar Governor, is set to become the 14th President of India and is expected to get nearly 70% of the votes. Kovind, who is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s choice, is a Dalit candidate and his name was dubbed as a masterstroke to divide the opposition and keep allies together. His name was also suggested as a move to cement the backward castes. If elected, Ram Nath Kovind will be the second Dalit President of India after KR Narayanan. As the counting of votes is underway, here’s everything you should know

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The current political environment is at the tipping point to discovering the 14thPresident of India. As the race to <keyword id="100736" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Raisina-Hills">Raisina Hills</keyword> approaches its finale on the July 17, Ipsos, the global market and opinion research specialists and InShorts conducted its proprietary Pulse of the Nation Poll to get in touch with the popular opinions surrounding the Presidential Elections. The poll witnessed the participation of 1,19,132 unique users. The results seemed to be clearly in the favor of former <keyword id="30033" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Bihar">Bihar</keyword> Governor, <keyword id="6354561" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Ram-Nath-Kovind">Ram Nath Kovind</keyword>, who won the popular vote with 71% in favor. Interestingly, 62% Indians feel the President should be a non-political figure.<div type="embedgroup"> <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="59580601" title="This internship programme offers B-school students INR 1.5L as reward" rank="1.0" kind="RELATED" publishDate="Jul 13, 2017, 7:11 PM" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div></div>
 Key Findings: Polarity between the Genders on the choice of the President Although Ram <keyword id="3705711" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="nath-kovind">Nath Kovind</keyword> is leading with the majority of popular votes, it was interesting to witness the polarity between the preferences of the two common genders. While only 27% males voted in the favor of <keyword id="6408326" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Meira-Kumar">Meira Kumar</keyword>, 45% of females favored her candidature over Mr Kovind’s. <div type="embedgroup"> <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="59647468" title="Oyo is giving you a chance to win a fully paid trip to India, Malaysia or Nepal" rank="1.0" kind="RELATED" publishDate="Jul 18, 2017, 2:49 PM" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div></div>
 62% favors a Non-Political President Perhaps it’s time we witnessed more of scientists, educationists, or perhaps entrepreneurs as the Head of the Nation. While 62% Indians would like to have a President without a Political Background, 22% feels that the background doesn’t matter. However, 11% Indians are strictly against having a President from a non-political background, and the remaining 5% choose not to reveal their opinion. 40% Indians believe the post of President is Very Critical; 37% says it Doesn’t Matter India appeared divided on the role of the President. While 40% believe that the role is Very Critical, since the person is heading the nation, 37% view the Presidency as merely a symbolic post. Furthermore, 15% of Indians believe that the post should be abolished as it is a waste of taxpayer’s money, although 8% refrained from commenting. 

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 65% of voters aged between 18 to 30 years The survey was dominated by the age group of 18-30 years, constituting 65% of the sample size. Users aged between 31 to 45 years comprised 22% of the sample, with 7% of users aged between 46 to 60 years, 4% under 18 years and the remaining 2% over 60 years.

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<keyword id="19894922" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uttar-Pradesh" source="keywords">Uttar Pradesh</keyword> has strong and established women leaders but, ironically, the majority of this '<keyword id="19911646" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nari-Shakti" source="keywords">Nari Shakti</keyword>' does not belong to this state. Barring a few, most of the women leaders have come from other states and after contesting several elections, they have consolidated their position in Uttar Pradesh. Senior Congress leader <keyword id="19935990" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sonia-Gandhi" source="keywords">Sonia Gandhi</keyword> leads the brigade of political talent imported from outside Uttar Pradesh. A native of Italy who was living in New Delhi with her in-laws, the Gandhi bahu made her political debut from Amethi in 1999 and then contested and won the Rae Bareli seat from 2004 to 2019. Sonia Gandhi began campaigning in Amethi from 1984 when her husband Rajiv Gandhi made his political debut. When Sonia Gandhi finally took a plunge in politics after the former Prime Minister's demise, she chose the family turf, Amethi. The former Congress President was at one time seen as a prime ministerial candidate, though she never claimed the position. Another woman politician who was seen as a prospective prime ministerial candidate is BSP supremo, <keyword id="19897516" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mayawati" source="keywords">Mayawati</keyword>. Mayawati was born in Delhi but her political 'karambhoomi' became Uttar Pradesh when the first SP-BSP government came into existence in 1993 in the state. Circumstances propelled Mayawati into the Uttar Pradesh chief minister's chair in 1995 and over the years, she has emerged as a politician who cannot be ignored. Actor-turned-politician, <keyword id="19968072" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hema-Malini" source="keywords">Hema Malini</keyword>, who is seeking her third term from Mathura, belongs to Tamil Nadu and has spent most of her life in Mumbai. She contested and won the 2014 and 2019 elections from Mathura. Hema Malini calls herself 'Krishna ki gopi' and claims to have a divine connect with Mathura. Among others in this list is Smriti Irani, who is seeking her second term from Amethi and originally belongs to Delhi. However, after winning Amethi in 2019, she calls herself 'Amethi ki bitiya'. She has even built her home in Gauriganj in Amethi and is well versed with local politics and the local people. Maneka Gandhi, who originally belongs to Delhi, is the senior-most MP among these women, having won her first election in 1989 on a Janata Dal ticket. She later joined the BJP and has always chosen Uttar Pradesh to contest elections - first Pilibhit and then Sultanpur. Jaya Prada, another actor-turned-politician, was born in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh but chose Uttar Pradesh to kickstart her political career even though she had earlier joined the TDP. Jaya Prada successfully contested the Rampur Lok Sabha seat in 2004 and 2009 elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket. Later, she joined the BJP in 2019. Dimple Yadav, senior SP leader and wife of Akhilesh Yadav, originally belongs to Uttarakhand but made Uttar Pradesh her home after her marriage to Akhilesh. Dimple Yadav began her career by losing a bypoll to Raj Babbar of the Congress from Firozabad in 2009 but won the Kannauj seat in a 2012 bye-election. She won the Kannauj seat in 2014 but lost in 2019. However, Dimple Yadav won the Mainpuri bye-election after the demise of Mulayam Singh Yadav in 2022. Among all these women leaders, it is only Union Minister Anupriya Patel of Apna Dal (S) who was born and brought up in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Interestingly, even in the past, several women leaders who made a mark in Indian politics were born outside Uttar Pradesh but chose to contest polls from the state. Former Lok Sabha Speaker, Meira Kumar, made her debut in politics when she won a bye-election from Bijnor in 1985. Meira Kumar, who is the daughter of late veteran politician Jagjivan Ram, was born in Bihar. Former Delhi Chief Minister, late Sheila Dikshit, won her first election from Kannauj in 1984. She was born in Kapurthala in Punjab. Freedom fighter Sucheta Kripalani, the first woman Chief Minister in India, who headed the Uttar Pradesh government, also belonged to Punjab but won the Assembly polls from Mehdawal in Sant Kabir Nagar. --IANS amita/rad

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<keyword id="6354561" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ram-Nath-Kovind">Ram Nath Kovind</keyword> has become India’s 14th President. His supporters were seen singing and dancing to the drumbeats at his residence in Paraunkh near Kanpur. Kovind, who was nominated by the BJP-led <keyword id="105903" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="National-Democratic-Alliance">National Democratic Alliance</keyword>, received 7, 02, 644 votes and scored an easy win over the opposition's candidate Meira Kumar, a former Lok Sabha Speaker. Kovind won by 65.65% votes. Meira Kumar got 34.35% of votes. His successor President Pranab Mukherjee will demit office on July 25. Ram Nath Kovind was born on October 1, 1945 in Kanpur Dehat, UP. Kovind has been a member of <keyword id="48510" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rajya-Sabha">Rajya Sabha</keyword> from UP for two terms: 1994-2000 and 2000-2006. He is a Dalit leader and headed BJP's Scheduled Caste Morcha between 1999 and 2002. He has been working on various issues related to Dalit and Scheduled Castes, and has served in many committees.

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<table style="border-width: initial; border-style: none;"></colgroup></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt;">Bihar </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt;">Leads 40/40 </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt;">BJP </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt;">17 </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt;">JDU </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt;">16 </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt;">LKSP </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt;">6 </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt;">Indian National Congress </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.7421872500000001pt;vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt;">1 </td></tr></tbody></table> The National Democratic Alliance has won 39 seats in Bihar while the Indian National Congress managed to garner just one seat in the state. The BJP had a 23.6% vote share while the JDU had a 21.8% vote share. The exit polls predicted a clear win for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar. For the state of Bihar which has 40 Lok Sabha seats, the poll of polls predicted a 34-seat win for the National Democratic Alliance. Bihar’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar from the Janata Dal political party has an alliance with the NDA. Business Insider compiled surveys from five reputed sources — Republic-C Voter, News18 - IPSOS, Today's Chanakya, India Today-Axis, and TimesNow - VMR — amongst many others and the final number is an average of these five polls. Political experts will always point out that dynasty politics is always deep rooted in Bihar. We see a number of examples even this time while we glance through the candidates contesting in the <keyword id="56978" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Lok-Sabha-elections">Lok Sabha elections</keyword> 2019. The results are awaited eagerly to know who the people are favoring this time to rule them from the center. There are 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state of Bihar. Among them. Not less than 26 are showing up candidates from highly familiar political families. The electoral battle in the state sees Mishra Bharti, the daughter of Lalu Prasad, Chandrika Rai, son of former chief minister Daroga Rai, Randhir Singh, the son of Prabhunath Singh, Meira Kumar and Kirti Azad, the Congress candidates, and Pashupati Nath Paras, the younger brother of Ram Vilas Paswan. Kirti Azad is actually the third inheritor from the family of a chief minister. His father is Bhagawat Jha Azad, who was the chief minister of Bihar during late nineteen eighties. The other lesser known inheritors of political families are Akilesh Singh, the grandson of Akhilesh Singh - Congress Rajya Sabha MP and Shashwat Kedar, the grandson of Kedar Pandey, the former chief minister. Ashok Yadav, the contesting candidate for Madhubani for BJP is the son of Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav, the sitting MP of BJP.

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<keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> has led the <keyword id="14666" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="BJP">BJP</keyword> to its biggest <keyword id="6359191" type="EVENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="election">election</keyword> victory. In fact, it is the biggest election victory in the country since Rajiv Gandhi swept to power in 1984, following India Gandhi’s assassination. The outcome for the BJP has been even better than what the exit polls had predicted like Chanakya News. 
 
The BJP has swept away parties like Mayawati’s Bahujan Samajwadi Party and Mulayam’s Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. BSP was completely decimated and even failed to open its account. 
 <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword>’ national tally has been less than that of the BJP in UP alone. The BJP had won 251 seats and was leading in 31 constituencies, making its total tally to 282 as per the latest update. The Congress had won only 41 and was leading in five, managing just a total of 46, as per the latest update. 
 <keyword id="41281" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="NDA">NDA</keyword>’s tally stood at 337 (lead+win), while <keyword id="6355364" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="UPA">UPA</keyword>’s tally stood at modest 59 (lead+win). 
 
Several Congress heavyweights – Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, PK Bansal, Kapil Sibbal, Sandeep Dikshit, Ajay Makan, Madhsudan Mistry, Sanjay Nirupam and Priya Dutt had to bite the dust. 
 
All the BJP-ruled states - Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh headed the BJP way. 
It remains to be seen what Modi does with this degree of political authority.

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NEW DELHI: He was one of the 4,500 guests but Delhi CM <keyword id="260213" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Arvind-Kejriwal">Arvind Kejriwal</keyword>, in his maiden outing at President <keyword id="9937" type="COMPANY" weightage="40" keywordseo="Pranab">Pranab</keyword> Mukherjee’s ‘At Home’, stole the show. 
 
Wearing his trademark maroon sweater, muffler and floaters, Kejriwal stood in the sprawling Mughal Gardens as India’s swish set vied for autographs, pictures and sometimes just a handshake with him. 
 
It was a power moment that no one in the establishment may have imagined. Two years ago, Kejriwal had negotiated with Mukherjee, chairman of the joint drafting committee, on the Lokpal bill and had returned empty-handed. On Saturday, the two displayed a public difference of opinion. Mukherjee spoke against “populist anarchy” and Kejriwal defended his dharna as constitutional. On Sunday, as Mukherjee gave an audience to invitees from the world of diplomacy, politics, administration, arts and media, Kejriwal held a parallel durbar. 
 
Men and women showered him with unabashed praise. Several ambassadors and bureaucrats took the opportunity to introduce themselves to Kejriwal who was accompanied by his Cabinet. German ambassador Michael Steiner sought a meeting with Kejriwal for German President Joachim Gauck who is visiting India next month. The request, it emerges, was turned down by the CM’s office. Kejriwal assured him that it would be rescheduled. Another diplomat shared a joke, saying how his broken Hindi left him confused about the party’s name initially (he thought aam only meant mango). 
 The power elite gave up its pretensions, some offered him advice and encouragement, some said they were inspired and others sought his time. The CM even received a muffler as a present. The argumentative asked why he had sat in the VIP enclosure at the <keyword id="6416557" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Republic-day">Republic Day</keyword> parade or why his party’s name had no mention of the “aam aurat”. To them all, Kejriwal gave a patient ear. In fact, the <keyword id="6356115" type="CITY" weightage="40" keywordseo="AAP">AAP</keyword> durbar went on well after the President and the PM had left the venue till security personnel stepped in to guide Kejriwal to the exit. 
 
Mukherjee too was his accessible self, meeting people gathered in the Rashtrapati Bhavan lawns. Visiting Japanese PM Shinzo Abe also met the invitees. 
 Later, <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword> president Sonia Gandhi and BJP leader Sushma Swaraj got up from their chairs in the VIP enclosure and mixed with the crowd. 
 Other dignitaries present were Vice-President <keyword id="6491214" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Hamid-Ansari">Hamid Ansari</keyword>, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, <keyword id="6355187" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="Lok-Sabha">Lok Sabha</keyword> Speaker Meira Kumar, home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, besides BJP leaders L K Advani and Arun Jaitley. Cabinet ministers P Chidambaram, Veerappa Moily and A K Antony were also present. 
 
Sources said close to 4,500 people had turned up. Rashtrapati Bhavan had issued e-invites this year and the entrances were manned by bar-code scanning personnel. About 60% of the invites were sent out through e-mail, bringing down costs and resources as part of Rashtrapati Bhavan’s greening exercise.

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