V. V. Giri
Varahagiri Venkata Giri, better known as V. V. Giri was an Indian statesman, activist, and diplomat who served as the president of India from 1969 to 1974.
Background
- Born in
- Brahmapur
- Educated at
- University College DublinUniversity of Madras
- Awards
- 🏆 Bharat Ratna🏆 anniversary medal at the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Iranian Empire🏆 honorary doctor of Comenius University
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"Soon after his unusual election as the fourth President of India, he addressed Srimathi Indira Gandhi as his daughter."
"I have not permitted my constitutional niceties in the way of my free functioning in public…given frank expression to views concerning administration so often."
"I am more at home at an assembly like this than sitting inside the splendor of the Rashtrapathi Bhavan or Raj Bhavans."
"The youth of the country, who are the most potent force in building India to progress and in preserving its unity, have to be shown the right example and given the right lead. A spirit of self-introsp…"
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1894
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Birth1980
Died
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