Even his critics say Thaawar Chand Gehlot is a man of delivery. 'If a task is assigned, he wins it over with political sagacity,' they say.
It was a many splendoured political career, which ended at the presidential palace. But the prime minister's post eluded him, even though it was a position he openly aspired for.
In the two years that President Pranab Mukherjee has spent so far at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the country's first citizen has shown a marked preference for playing the gracious host over being a travelling head of state.
The 19-year-old man of the moment dedicated his match-winning performance in the IPL's second qualifier to those who lost their lives in his native - the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.
The Cricket Club of India is to honour senior batsman Sachin Tendulkar as part of celebrating its 75th anniversary at its famous Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
Setting aside its differences with the Congress, the YSR Congress Party of Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Wednessay decided to support the candidatures of United Progressive Alliance candidates -- Pranab Mukherjee for president and Hamid Ansari for vice president.
Vignettes from President Pranab Mukherjee's first At Home last week
'The President is the First Citizen of India. To me, he is the First Servant. The essence of politics is serving the people,' former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee tells Rediff.com's Indrani Roy in an exclusive interview.
The Delhi high court on Friday stayed its single judge's order in which it had said that under the Right to Information Act, every citizen is entitled to know the donations given by the President of India.
Charging the United Progressive Alliance with lacking "political decency" in evolving a consensus candidate for the Presidential poll, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday said its decision to back former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma was in keeping with "anti-Congress, anti- UPA mood" in the country.
'We're going to campaign across the country to convince more candidates to endorse some/all of these issues -- and hold them to their promises if and when they are elected.'
Seeking to erase the general perception that the President of India was a mere ceremonial figure, former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee said that it was imperative that the First Citizen exercises independent judgement at times of crisis.
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President Pratibha Patil was the first of a billion-plus population in the country to be counted on Wednesday as lakhs of enumerators fanned out in a gigantic effort to document every citizen over the next three weeks in the world's second largest census.
In a statement, Press Secretary to the President, Venu Rajamony said interested applicants can apply online.
Naval officer Dilip Donde, who became the first Indian ever to circumnavigate the globe solo on a sail boat, on Sunday said foreigners did not believe that he was the first citizen from the country to take up this task. The 42-year-old naval officer steered into the Mumbai harbour on Saturday and was received by Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari, Navy chief Admiral Nirmal Kumar Verma and his family members.
Taking a trip down the memory lane, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said he was an "unparalleled naughty boy" who used to trouble his mother, as he credited her for all the success he has achieved.
Relieved at the safe return of two female American journalists who were arrested in North Korea some five months ago, US President Barack Obama today thanked the former First Citizen Bill Clinton for his "extraordinary humanitarian" effort in this regard.
President Pratibha Patil has approved the law giving her a three-fold hike in salary taking her pay cheque to Rs 1.5 lakh from Rs 50,000 per month in the New Year.
President Pratibha Patil has approved the law giving her a 300 per cent hike in salary taking her monthly pay cheque to Rs 150,000 from Rs 50,000 per month in the New Year.
Ex-President APJ Abdul Kalam has moved to his allotted accommodation at 10 Rajaji Marg on Thursday from the 'High Risk Category Officers' Hut', a simple accommodation provided to him in Delhi Cantonment. The 75-year-old former President has been staying in the army hut since demitting office on July 25.
A day after President Pranab Mukherjee's veiled criticism of the Aam Aadmi Party in his address to the nation, it said it would carefully consider whatever he has said.
There is a quiet dignity about her at the event that confounds and eventually impresses the diehard sceptic.
"We have yet to decide about the party's candidate, but one thing is clear that we are not going to give Kalam another term in the office," Nilotpal Basu told rediff.com in the Parliament house complex on Friday afternoon.
Congress candidate Om Parkash Soni, a former first citizen, has been retaining this seat for the last two terms, but as an Independent.
If Jaitley is finalised for the First Citizen's post, Modi will have scored two strategic goals, reports Rajeev Sharma.
The idol was dressed in a grey suit, which Dr Kalam wore during his recent trip to Guwahati.
The president-elect has vast public, social, and political experience which will help him better to discharge his duty as the First Citizen of India.
With 8 out of Maharashtra's 10 municipal corporations under the BJP's belt, and a stunning show in 25 zilla parishads and panchayat samitis, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, says Prasanna D Zore, is all set for an encore when his party next faces the polls.
The slogan of "Swachh Bharat" on Friday echoed in Rashtrapati Bhavan where President Pranab Mukherjee urged students, who came to meet him on the occasion of Children's Day, to keep their schools and surroundings clean.
'We have to find a way out of this confrontational politics.'
The Supreme Court on Monday witnessed sharp exchanges when it took exception to Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi using the phrase "judges appointing judges" to attack the collegium system and observing that B R Ambedkar would have turned in his grave at the way the power was taken away from the executive.
R K Laxman was suffering from a prolonged illness.
The demand for OROP has been projected as an unambiguous issue but a good policy argument must have a sound economic element.
This is the first time that a Muslim lady has filed a nomination in a Presidential election.
"Justice has prevailed for the families of those who lost their lives in the 1993 Mumbai blasts," Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said.
In a spontaneous outpouring of grief, thousands of people bid an emotional farewell to former President APJ Abdul Kalam who was on Thursday laid to rest with full state honours in his home town here amid chants of "Bharat Mata Ki Jai".
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