President Ram Nath Kovind, paid floral tributes to former President of India KR Narayanan on the occasion of his birth anniversary at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday.
President Kovind, officers and staff paid floral tributes in front of a portrait of KR Narayanan in the Durbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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KR Narayan was the 10th President of India and was succeeded by APJ Abdul Kalam. He was in office from 21 August 1992 to 24 July 1997.
After his notable career as a diplomat, he was asked by Indira Gandhi to join the Congress and contested his first Lok Sabha election at the age of 64 in 1984.
The KY Narayanan , who was from Kerala, won three back-to-back elections and was union minister in the Rajiv Gandhi government.
The leader from Kerala, who died in 2005 at the age of 85, distinguished himself by returning twice union cabinet’s recommendations to dismiss elected state governments, sending a firm message that he was no ‘rubber stamp President.’
