Ram Nath Kovind: His rise from Kanpur's Paraukh village to 340-room Rashtrapati Bhavan
As soon Ram Nath Kovind, a Dalit Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was elected the 14th President of India, his ancestral village Paraukh in Kanpur Dehat district burst into celebrations. Residents lit lamps with ghee, played gulal (colour), burst firecrackers as their 'Baba Ji', defeated Opposition candidate Meira Kumar in a straight fight by a huge margin of 334,730.
Jul 21, 2017, 09:57 AM IST