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President Narayanan returned for reconsideration the advices from the Union cabinet to impose President's rule in a state, in accordance with Article 356, in two instances: one from the Gujral government ( 22 October 1997 ) seeking to dismiss the Kalyan Singh government in Uttar Pradesh, and the other from the Vajpayee government ( 25 September 1998 ) seeking to dismiss the Rabri Devi government in Bihar.
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* 1920 – K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India ( d. 2005 )
** K. R. Narayanan, President of India ( died 2005 )
Abdul Kalam served as the 11th President of India, succeeding K. R. Narayanan.
Kocheril Raman Narayanan ( 27 October 1920 – 9 November 2005 ) was the tenth President of India.
Elected as the ninth Vice President in 1992, Narayanan went on to become President in 1997.
Narayanan is regarded as an independent and assertive President who set several precedents and enlarged the scope of the highest constitutional office.
K. R. Narayanan with then President of Russia Vladimir Putin on 3 October 2000.
K. R. Narayanan was elected as the Vice President of India on 21 August 1992, under the Presidency of Shankar Dayal Sharma.
On his relationship with the Left front, Narayanan later clarified that he was neither a devotee nor a blind opponent of Communism ; they had known of his ideological differences, but had supported him as Vice President ( and later as President ) because of special political circumstances that prevailed in the country.
In the general elections of 1998, K. R. Narayanan became the first sitting President to vote ( 16 February 1998 ), casting his vote at a polling booth in a school within the Rashtrapati Bhavan complex after standing in a queue like an ordinary citizen.
President Narayanan introduced the important practice of explaining to the nation ( by means of Rashtrapati Bhavan communiqués ) the thinking that led to the various decisions he took while exercising his discretionary powers ; this has led to openness and transparency in the functioning of the President.
President Narayanan determined that no one would be able to secure a majority in the Lok Sabha and accepted Gujral's advice ( 4 December ).
One of the coalition partners supporting the minority government ( the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam under J. Jayalalithaa ) wrote a letter to the President withdrawing support on 14 April 1999, and Narayanan advised Vajpayee to seek a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha.
In these decisions, President Narayanan set a new precedent concerning the appointment of a Prime minister — if no party or pre-election coalition had a majority, then a person would be appointed Prime minister only if he was able to convince the President ( through letters of support from allied parties ) of his ability to secure the confidence of the house.
President Narayanan in his speeches consistently sought to remind the nation of its duties and obligations towards the Dalits and Adivasis, the minorities, and the poor and downtrodden.
President Narayanan spoke on various occasions on the condition of the Dalits, Adivasis, and other backward sections of society, and the various iniquities they faced ( often in defiance of law ), such as denial of civic amenities, ostracism, harassment and violence ( particularly against women ), and displacement by ill-conceived development projects.
When the Australian missionary and social worker Graham Staines and his two minor sons were burned alive ( 22 January 1999 ), President Narayanan condemned it as a barbarous crime belonging to the world's inventory of black deeds.
President Narayanan was deeply pained and anguished, and described it as a grave crisis of the society and the nation ; he called it the duty of every Indian to strive to restore peace and thus preserve and strengthen the foundations of the state and the tradition of tolerance.
Throughout his Presidency, Narayanan adopted the policy of not visiting places of worship or godmen / godwomen ; he is the only President to have followed this practice.
After his retirement as President, K. R. Narayanan, along with his wife Usha, lived his remaining years in a central Delhi bungalow ( on 34 Prithviraj Road ).
President and returned
Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.
On this issue, the President received a detailed report from his U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, who had just returned from Paris, and Mr. Kennedy asked Stevenson to search for a face-saving way -- for both Paris and Tunis -- out of the imbroglio.
While campaigning for U. S. President, the then Governor Clinton returned to Arkansas to see that Ricky Ray Rector would be executed.
In July 1996, former Burundian President Buyoya returned to power in a bloodless coup.
After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen at the Bonn International Conference on Afghanistan.
Prince Sihanouk, President of the Supreme National Council of Cambodia ( SNC ), and other members of the SNC returned to Phnom Penh in November 1991, to begin the resettlement process in Cambodia.
The FARC suspended talks in November 2000, to protest what it called " paramilitary terrorism " but returned to the negotiating table in February 2001, following 2 days of meetings between President Pastrana and FARC leader Manuel Marulanda.
Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon I, returned from exile in the United Kingdom in 1848 to be elected to the French parliament, and then as " Prince President " in a coup d ' état elected himself Emperor, a move approved later by a large majority of the French electorate.
When President Aristide returned to Haiti, some improvements did occur in the manufacturing sector.
" Harvey Mudd eventually returned the cannon after the Caltech President threatened to take legal action.
Middleton returned to South Carolina and was elected President of the Provincial Congress of South Carolina.
On 30 November 1967, Lord Caradon, the British Ambassador to the United Nations, announced that in accordance with the wishes of the local inhabitants, the islands would be returned to Muscat and Oman, despite criticism from President Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi that the islands should be transferred to the People's Republic of South Yemen.
President Rene Mouawad was elected the following day, but was assassinated in a car bombing in Beirut on November 22 as his motorcade returned from Lebanese independence day ceremonies.
In 2005, Queen Margarethe II of Denmark and President Vladimir Putin of Russia and their respective governments agreed that the Empress's remains should be returned to St. Petersburg in accordance with her wish to be interred next to her husband.
In 2009, Weber returned during the reorganization of the Opel leadership to Adam Opel GmbH as " Vice President Planning and Commercial Vehicle Operations " for the company.
In 2004, Tarantino returned to Cannes, where he served as President of the Jury.
When Wilson re-entered government in 1974 Jenkins returned to the Home Office, but, increasingly disenchanted by the swing to the left of the Labour Party, he chose to leave British politics in 1976 and was appointed President of the European Commission in 1977, serving until 1981: he was the first and to date only British holder of this office.
An accord was negotiated under which President de Menezes was returned to office.
It was kept in a vault at Fort Knox until 1978, when it was returned to the nation by order of President Jimmy Carter.
President Pierce's successors, however, returned to the former procedure of obtaining authorization from both Houses.
On the 2008 visit Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet returned similar comments as he lauded a group of Venezuelans who captured a US soldier during the Vietnam War in an unsuccessful bid to prevent the execution of a Vietnamese revolutionary.
After serving as president of Mexico for six years, President Fox returned to his home state of Guanajuato, where he resides with his wife and family.
First lady Dolley Madison rescued a painting of George Washington, and in 1939, a Canadian man returned a jewelry box to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, claiming that his grandfather had taken it from Washington.
When Forbes returned to U. S., he visited President Harding at the White House in the Red Room.
Immediately after President Harding's death, Mrs. Harding returned to Washington, D. C., and briefly stayed in the White House with President and First Lady Coolidge.
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