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| | rediff.com: A P J Abdul Kalam elected 11th President of India |
 | | Eminent missile technologist A P J Abdul Kalam was on Thursday elected India's 11th President in a highly one-sided contest in which he trounced the Left-backed Colonel Lakshmi Sehgal bagging nearly 90 per cent vote value in a preferential system of election. |
 | | The 71-year-old Kalam, born in a boatman's family in Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, got 4,152 votes with a vote value of 9,22,884, against Sehgal's 459 votes accounting for 1,07,366 votes value in a race in what was heavily loaded against her with the entire political spectrum supporting Kalam. |
 | | Kalam told Mahajan he was delighted to get elected as President of India and immediately came out with a message that the country needs a 'second vision' to transform into a prosperous, poverty free, healthy and developed nation. |
| www.rediff.com /news/2002/jul/18prez2.htm (581 words) |
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