Race to Rashtrapati Bhawan: Here's a list of 14 presidents of India
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Race to Rashtrapati Bhawan: Here's a list of 14 presidents of India

Hindustan Times  

Presidential elections 2022: The race to the Rashtrapati Bhawan, between India's first tribal presidential candidate and a former finance minister, begins Monday as National Democratic Alliance's Droupadi Murmu and Opposition’s joint pick - Yashwant Sinha - battle it out for the post of President of India. Nearly 4,800 MPs and MLAs are set to vote for their pick for the country's top post as President Ram Nath Kovind's term comes to an end on July 24. Follow LIVE Updates Among the 14 presidents of India since the nation became a republic in 1950, seven have belonged to a political party, of whom six were backed by the Congress. Pratibha Patil, the last Congress-backed candidate to hold the post, was also India's first woman president and will in all probability be followed by this year's BJP candidate Droupadi Murmu.

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BJP fields 9 candidates for Tamil Nadu in third list for Lok Sabha elections
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The Hindu  

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