Ram Nath Kovind was born on October 1, 1945 at Kanpur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh. Married to Savita Kovind on 30th May, 1974, he has a son Prashant Kumar who is married and a daughter Miss Swati. (Photo | PTI)
Kovind has a bachelors in commerce and has also studied law from Kanpur University in Uttar Pradesh. (Photo | Bihar Governor's website)
Ram Nath Kovind was Central Government Advocate in Delhi High Court from 1977 to 1979 and Central Government Standing Counsel in Supreme Court from 1980 to 1993. He became Advocate-on-Record of the Supreme Court of India in 1978. (Photo | Bihar Governor's website)
He practiced in the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court for about 16 years till 1993 after he was enrolled as an advocate in 1971 with the Bar Council of Delhi. (Photo | Bihar Governor's website)
He was elected and became as the Rajya Sabha MP in April 1994 from Uttar Pradesh and served for two consecutive terms for 12 years till March, 2006. (Photo | Bihar Governor's website)
Ram Nath Kovind served as Member of Board of Management of Dr. B.R Ambedkar University, Lucknow. He also served as Member of Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata. He represented India in United Nations (New York) and addressed United Nations General Assembly in October, 2002. (Photo | Bihar Governor's website)
In 1997 some Government Orders were issued by the Central Government which adversely affected the interests of employees of the Scheduled Castes/Tribes. Ram Nath Kovind joined the movement of SC/ST employees against the Central Government and consequently succeeded in getting those Government Orders null and void by the passage of three Amendments in the Constitution of India during the first NDA regime. (Photo | Bihar Governor's website)
Shri Kovind, had been a crusader for the Rights and Cause of Weaker Sections of the Society specially Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes/ OBC/Minority/Land Women from his student days. (PTI)
During Ram Nath Kovind's parliamentary tenure of 12 years, he emphasized on the development of basic infrastructure for education in rural areas by helping in construction of school buildings in Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand under MPLAD Scheme. (Photo | Bihar Governor's website)
During his Advocacy tenure, he took a leading role in providing free legal aid to the weaker sections of society, specially SC/ST women, needy and the poor under the aegis of “Free Legal Aid Society” in Delhi. (Photo | PTI)
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