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Activists of India's ruling Congress party apply colored powder on portrait of Pranab Mukherjee, as they celebrate his victory in India's presidential election in Kolkata, India, Sunday, July 22, 2012.

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NEW DELHI: The candidate from India's governing Congress party, former Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, was declared winner Sunday in voting for the country's next president, a largely ceremonial position.


Election official P.K. Agnihotri said Mukherjee had received more than twice as many votes as his rival in last Thursday's balloting by national and state legislators.


"I express deep gratitude to the people for electing me to this high office," Mukherjee said. He said he would try to justify the people's trust.


His rival, Purno Agitok Sangma, conceded defeat before the counting was complete Sunday. "I congratulate Mukherjee on his victory and I wish him success," he told reporters.


Mukherjee's elated supporters danced to the beat of drums and set off firecrackers outside his residence as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, the Congress party chief, arrived to congratulate him. Several opposition groups also backed Mukherjee.


Mukherjee and Sangma, a former speaker of Parliament, were competing to succeed India's first female president, Pratibha Devisingh Patil. Mukherjee will be sworn in on Wednesday.


In India, the prime minister is the head of government and the president is mostly a figurehead.


Mukherjee has served previously as foreign minister, defense minister and finance minister. His latest term as finance minister from 2009 until earlier this year was marred by declining growth, a tumbling currency and rising inflation. India's economic growth in the last quarter was 5.3 percent, the slowest rate in years.

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The criminals of CIA-RAW have been deleting my posted comments; save this on your computer and pass it on. Yes, it is an outrage that General V. K. Singh, who reported the 14 crore rupees bribe offer to him to the Defence Minister immediately as A. K. Antony admitted in Parliament which establishes the prima facie truth of his allegation against Tejinder Singh who offered the bribe, was in effect arrested along with the serving vice chief of army staff, head of military intelligence etc. and set free on bail -- by a magistrate and High Court judges prima facie acting under the influence of bribes and/or threats from C.I.A.-RAW (see 'What You Should Know About RAW' below) who must be removed from the bench, tried and hanged for high treason or, better, summarily executed by firing squad by the Army without a trial since India is engaged in a War of Independence from white colonial rule described in 'Join India's War of Independence' below and an arrest of Army officers constitutes capture by enemy agents -- for 'defaming' Tejinder Singh by making this bribery allegation against Tejinder Singh "who had a long and distinguished career in the Army", as is the murder of hundreds of Indian Air Force pilots by the serving chief of air staff in collaboration with the C.I.A. -- see 'Indian Air Force Pilots' Murder' : IndianAirForcePilotsMurderDOTblogspotDOTcom -- and K. Subrahmanyam and the C.I.A. Director openly offering to transfer one crore rupees into my bank account within 48 hours if I agreed to work with them -- see 'Offer to me by K. Subrahmanyam and C.I.A. Director' : HaydenSubrahmanyamDOTblogspotDOTcom -- but these things are consequences of the British killing over ten million Indians in just the ten years after 1857 in just Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Bihar because of which India remains under white colonial rule (below). A report headed "Former Army chief V K Singh's aide in mental ward" (Times of India, July 21, 2012, Internet) says "Colonel Honey Bakshi was handpicked to head the Technical Support Division (TSD), a new secretive unit created by General V K Singh after he took over as Army chief in March 2010. He continued to head the New Delhi-based unit after the change of guard in the Army. ... On Wednesday, the officer was admitted to the psychiatric ward of the Army Hospital in what is being seen as the latest twist in the simmering factional feud in the Army. The Military Intelligence (MI) officer has told doctors that he was being mentally harassed by some of his senior officers. ... anonymous complaints and media reports claimed that the officer was instrumental in illegally tapping phones of many important persons in the national capital. ... The dramatic turn for Col Bakshi shows that the fight between rival groups in the Army continues. With Gen Singh retiring on May 31, there have been allegations doing the rounds that the new Army regime is harassing officers who had once been close to Gen Singh, including Col Bakshi." I have said in press releases for about a year that the current Army chief, Bikram Singh, is an enemy agent. An army fights enemy agents with weapons, not mental wards. Manmohan Singh at the G-20 meeting in Mexico on June 18 '12 pledged $10 billion to the IMF to help European countries such as Greece and Italy cope with debt but will not use the money to help tens of thousands of Indian farmers committing suicide due to indebtedness or hundreds of millions of India's malnourished children. He seeks foreign investment -- that is, foreign ownership and control of India -- but will not invest the hundreds of billions of dollars he has given to the United States government -- in exchange for U.S. Treasury bonds -- in India. This is not even counting the unlimited amount of capital available to India by simply printing the money so long as it is used for productive purposes: 'How India's Economy Can Grow 30% Per Year Or More' :HowIndiasEconomyCanGrowDOTblogspotDOTcom . An example of foreign investment trumpeted by Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma is a $5 billion investment in India announced by Coca Cola to give Indians harmful-to-health beverages and replace healthier and tastier Indian beverages. Such examples of American rule over India in economic, military and all spheres can be multiplied hundreds of times. India's nuclear forces have been accused in the past of presenting photo-shopped non-existent missiles and non-existent nuclear warheads but India's nuclear warheads emplaced in U.S. cities since then are not non-existent : 'Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U.S.' :NuclearSupremacyForIndiaOverUSDOTblogspotDOTcom . If it is the non-existence of "knowledge, intelligence, courage and character" which is responsible for their not having triggered the warheads, with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be destroyed if there is any retaliation, it is MY responsibility to provide the knowledge, intelligence, courage and character; all they have to do is obey India's legitimate ruler and it is high time they did so without further delay: 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram Satish Chandra' :SatyamShivamSundaramSatishChandraDOTblogspotDOTcom . I have referred in 'Source of Manmohan Singh's 'Deep Love' For Bush' -- SourceOfManmohanSinghsDeepLoveForBushDOTblogspotDOTcom -- to the British in India having killed over ten million Indians in just the ten years after 1857; people have mistakenly assumed these to be deaths caused by famine but NO, NO, NO, these were deaths caused by the gun and sword and hangings and being blown from the mouths of cannons in just the ten years after 1857 in just Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Bihar; the deaths caused by famines during British rule were quite separate from this; see Amaresh Misra's 'India AD 1857' in two volumes totaling over two thousand pages (Delhi: Rupa Satish Chandra, Toronto

INDIA HAS GOT ITS RIGHT PRESIDENT ALMOST AFTER A BIG STRUGGLE. NOW THE PRIMINISTER HAVE TO CHOOSE A WELLKNOWNED FINANCE MINISTER OR BE SELF AS A FININCE MINISTER. SANTOSH, ratnanagar-9,chitwan

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