NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind defeated Opposition's Meira Kumar to officially become the 14th President of India. Kovind won the election by a margin of 3,34,730 votes, securing 7,02,044 as against Kumar's 3,67,314. The former Governor of Bihar will be sworn in on 25 July. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Kovind for his victory, saying that he was “gladdened by the extensive support for Kovind among MPs across various states."
Ram Nath Kovind, the ruling NDA coalition's candidate, was elected as India's 14th President with an overwhelming majority of votes from the country's lawmakers.
In an exclusive interview
to The Quint, union Minister Venkaiah Naidu said that it is imperative for a
democratic country to have an opposition. Ridiculing rival party Congress, he said that the people had
taken a decision to not recognise the party as an opposition in the Parliament.
He further added that the party had managed to pocket only seven seats in UP,
despite having snagged an alliance with the Samajwadi Party. Stating that the BJP’s well-wishes will remain should the
opposition put up a united front, Naidu affirmed that such a situation is close
to impossible. Highlighting the politics in states without a BJP-led front,
Naidu said that the opposition parties will never agree for an alliance with
each other. “If it happens, it will be easier”, he said.
A day after 25 CRPF personnel were martyred in a Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, The Quint’s Editorial Director Sanjay Pugalia talked to Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu about the intensity of insurgency in the country. In a Facebook Live on Tuesday afternoon, Naidu spoke about the Naxal attack, cow vigilantism, and the culture of moral policing.
Piyush Goyal, Minister for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, in an exclusive conversation with The Quint’s Editorial Director Sanjay Pugalia revealed that he is very tech-savy. When he was asked why is he called “Appy Minister”, he said that he tracks his ministry with the help of apps.
Piyush Goyal, Minister for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, in an exclusive conversation with The Quint’s Editorial Director Sanjay Pugalia said that every person in India will have 24-hour electricity by 15 August 2022.
A few days after a 55-year-old Pehlu Khan lost his life in Alwar after being brutally beaten by cow vigilantes who suspected him of smuggling cows to Haryana from Jaipur, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that “such an incident did not happen”. After Congress leader Madhusudan Mistry, in Rajya Sabha, raised the issue of growing violence due to cow vigilantism and wrongly attacking the men who turned out to be dairy farm workers, Naqvi said:
This is a sensitive issue. A message should not go that we are supporting cow slaughter! Such an incident did not happen on the ground. The state govt has denied the report. But let this House not send a message that it supports cow slaughter.
