Ram Nath Kovind, the former Bihar Governor and the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA’s) Presidential election candidate has been elected as the country’s 14th President.

He has received 65.6 percent votes translating into 702,044 electoral college votes in the final vote count where as the UPA candidate Meira Kumar has managed to get 34.35 percent (367,314 votes).

Kovind got 522 MPs vote whereas 225 parliamentarians voted for Meira Kumar.

On July 24, the current President Pranab Mukherjee’s term is ending and Kovind will be taking oath the next day to become India’s 14th President.

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