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Ram Nath Kovind is the 14th President of India upon winning the 2017 presidential election in July 2017. He was Governor of Bihar from 2015 to 2017. He served as Member of Parliament from 1994 through 2006. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1991. He was President of the BJP Dalit Morcha between 1998 and 2002 and President of the All-India Koli Samaj. He also served as national spokesperson for the party. He donated his ancestral home in Derapur to the RSS. He was elected and became a Lok Sabha MP from the state of Uttar Pradesh in April 1994. He served a total of twelve years, two consecutive terms, until March 2006. As a member of parliament. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South As