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The US has congratulated president-elect Ram Nath Kovind on his electoral victory and said that it “looks forward” to working with him on regional and global issues.
Kovind, a low-key lawyer-turned-politician, was yesterday elected as India’s 14th President, the first BJP member and the second Dalit to occupy the country’s highest office.
“We want to congratulate the president-elect Ram Nath Kovind on his victory,” State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert told reporters yesterday.
Noting that the US and India have a “deep and growing strategic partnership”, she said: “We look forward to working with president-elect on regional and global issues.”
Nauert credited the close people-to-people contact between the world’s two largest democracies and “our shared democratic values” with the type of partnership they share.
A former Bihar governor, Kovind, 71, defeated the joint Opposition candidate Meira Kumar, a former Lok Sabha speaker.
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