Ramnath Kovind's profile

New Delhi June 19: For the presidential election, the Bharatiya Janata Party has declared its candidate. On behalf of the NDA, the current Governor of Bihar Ramnath Kovind will be the Presidential candidate.

BJP president Amit Shah announced this during a press conference on Monday.

Here is the profile that, he has been active in Central politics for a long time. He was made the governor of Bihar sometime before Bihar assembly elections.

Learn about certain things about Ramnath Kovind ...

Ramnath Kovind, who has been a Rajya Sabha member twice between 1994 and 2006, is from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. A lawyer by profession, Kovind was also the head of BJP's Scheduled Caste Morcha.

- Ramnath Kovind, who has been made the Presidential candidate, is a resident of Kanpur country of Uttar Pradesh.

- He has been the Special Executive Officer of former Prime Minister Morarji Desai in 1977

- Kovind has been a Rajya Sabha member twice

- twice as the National President and National Spokesperson of the Scheduled Caste, twice as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

- Lifetime custodian of the Divya Prem Seva Mission dedicated to serving leprosy patients located on the banks of Ganga in Haridwar

- The family has a wife, a son and a daughter

- After becoming the Modi government in the center, Kovind was the third person to become the Governor of Uttar Pradesh.

Member, Members of SC / ST Welfare Committee of Parliament, Ministry of Home Affairs, Petroleum Ministry, Social Justice, Chairman Rajya Sabha Housing Committee

- Member, Management Board of Dr. BR Abendakar University, Lucknow

Member, Board of Governors, IIM, Kolkata

- In 2002, led the India in the United Nations General Assembly.