"That the nation has found a consensus for its highest office in some one who has sprung from the grass-roots of our society and grown up in the dust and heat of this sacred land is symbolic of the fact that the concerns of the common man have now moved to the centre stage of our social and political life. It is this larger significance of my election rather than any personal sense of honour that makes me rejoice on this occasion."
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In: Speech By Shri Kocheril Raman Narayanan On His Assumption Of Office As President Of India, National Informatics Center, 25 July, 1997
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K. R. Narayanan
Kocheril Raman Narayanan (October 27, 1920 – November 9, 2005) was the tenth President of India.
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