President of India 2017

The president election will be held in India on 17th of July 2017. Counting will be done on 20th of July, that is exactly five days before the incumbent president's term expires.

In 2017 president election, BJP has nominated Ram Nath Kovind as a candidate and INC nominated Meira Kumar as a candidate.

We will see some basic information and qualifications of these candidates

Ram Nath Kovind:

• He holds a Bachelors degree in commerce and a LLB (We generally call it as B.L) from Kanpur University
• He passed in civil service examination, but he did not joined since he was selected as allied service instead of IAS

• He is an advocate-on-record of the Supreme Court of India
• He served as the personal assistant of Prime Minister of India Morarji Desai in 1977-1978
• He contested from Ghatampur and Bhognipur (both in Uttar Pradesh) assembly constituencies on the BJP ticket but lost both elections
• He was elected and became a Rajya Sabha MP from the state of Uttar Pradesh in April 1994
• The President of India appointed Kovind as Governor of Bihar on 8th of august 2015

Meira Kumar:

• She completed her M.A and L.L.B. at Indraprastha College and Miranda House, Delhi University
• First woman Speaker of Lok Sabha and served from 2009 to 2014
• She joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1975
• She is a lawyer and a former diplomat
• Served as a Cabinet Minister in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment of Manmohan Singh's Congress led Government (2004–2009)

• Meira Kumar was elected on INC ticket from Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh in 1985 and defeating political heavyweights like Ram Vilas Paswan and Mayawati, two powerful dalit leaders of Indian politics
• She served in the Congress-led UPA Government as the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment from 2004 to 2009
• She was a member of the 6th, 11th and 12th Lok Sabhas from Karol Bagh in Delhi