Kalam As President

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  Thousands Pay Last Respects to President Kalam in his Hometown Rameswaram

  People braved the afternoon heat, and the queues were endless, snaking across a field in Tamil Nadu's Rameswaram. Thousands of people came to say goodbye to former President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, a man from Rameswaram who won hearts across the country, as his body lay for public viewing.

• Presidential poll: BJP to try for consensus within NDA on Sangma, say sources

  After former president APJ Abdul Kalam refused to run for President of India against Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the BJP core group met late on Monday night at party president Nitin Gadkari's residence on whether to back former speaker PA Sangma, who is contesting the election as the candidate of chief ministers J Jayalalithaa and Naveen Pat...

• Presidential poll: BJP draws a blank with Kalam, looks to Sangma

  Former president APJ Abdul Kalam has refused to run for President of India against Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Dr Kalam was being aggressively wooed today by the BJP, which sensed in him a chance to put up a credible fight, if not a successful one. Senior leader LK Advani spoke with him thrice today; his emissary, Sudheendra Kulkarni, met D...

• APJ Abdul Kalam on BJP's list of probable candidates for President: Sources

  With the race for Rashtrapati Bhawan hotting up, sources have told NDTV that former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam is on the list of probable candidates for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The development comes on a day when Samajwadi Party (SP) once again put its weight behind Dr Kalam for the President's post.

• Who will be India's next President?

  The race for Rashtrapati Bhawan is hotting up. A day after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar said a non-political person should be the next President, now the Samajwadi Party has backed him.