DC Edit | Kovind, a President who went by the rule book
Deccan ChronicleHomilies from people in high places are a ritual every democracy faithfully observes and presidential speeches belong to this group. So when Ram Nath Kovind, the 14th President, delivered his parting speech in Parliament and when he delivered his last address to the nation as the first citizen, reminding his fellow citizens of the need to uphold democracy and its methodology, he played the role of an elder statesman. Mr Kovind obliquely agreed with political historians who would complain that the quality of parliamentary debates has degraded over time. A President takes the oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, which Mr Kovind called the eternal lamp of the Indian people. Mr Kovind’s time saw the government at the Centre taking measures which a lot of people thought undermined its basic principles.
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