Key facts
- Born
- 1 October 1945, Kanpur Dehat district
- State of birth
- Kanpur Dehat district, Uttar Pradesh
- Sector
- Politics & governance
- Profession
- President of India from 2017 to 2022
- Gender
- Male
This page is about a living person. It holds only public, sourced information, reviewed by our editors before publishing. Money figures are as reported by the named source. See something wrong? Report it below.
Biography
Ram Nath Kovind is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2017 to 2022. He is the first person from Uttar Pradesh as well as the first member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to become the president of India. Prior to his presidency, he served as the Governor of Bihar from 2015 to 2017 and as a Member of Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh for two successive terms. Prior to entering politics, he was a lawyer and he practised in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India until 1993.
Summary based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), reviewed by the RochakDuniya editorial team.
Timeline
- 1945Born in Kanpur Dehat district
- 1994Becomes member of Rajya Sabha
- 2015Becomes governor of Bihar
- 2017Becomes President of India
Sources & licences
- English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- हिंदी विकिपीडिया (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- Wikidata (CC0) · 3/5