A suitable president

In the history of the Indian republic, all but two presidents have been elected on the Congress party’s watch: N. Sanjiva Reddy, the first president to be called upon to exercise presidential discretion in forming governments and dissolving Parliament, and A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, arguably our most popular and least assertive president. For the rest, it is the Congress that has played the leading role in selecting the occupant of Rashtrapati Bhavan.

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