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	rediff.com: Vice-President Krishan Kant passes away
		Kant is the first vice-president to die in office.
		Kant was a member of the Young Turks faction in the Congress during the late sixties and early seventies, along with Chandra Shekhar, Mohan Dharia and Ram Dhan.
		Kant became a surprise nominee for the vice-president's post when his jail-mate during the Quit India movement I K Gujral became prime minister heading the United Front Government.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/jul/27vp.htm (887 words)

	A Gandhian, born to fight for India's freedom - smh.com.au
		Krishan Kant, India's Vice-President, who has died aged 75, was a political leader of rare simplicity, integrity and dedication.
		Kant was born into a family immersed in the freedom movement, led by Mahatma Gandhi, and thus in politics.
		Vajpayee suggested that Krishan Kant be adopted as the consensus candidate; the main opposition party, the Congress, led by Sonia Gandhi, accepted this proposal.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/08/01/1028157818951.html (725 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
		Ms Satyawati, 95-year-old mother of Vice-President Krishan Kant, sat in a state of stunned shock at the sudden demise of her son early this morning.
		Mr Kant was expelled from the Congress when the Emergency was declared in 1975 because of his open advocacy and support to Jayaprakash Narayan’s movement against corruption and the need for revolutionising all aspects of national life in economy, politics and society.
		Krishan Kant had a long association with the family of the late Prime Minister as his father Lala Achintya Ram and Lal Bahadur Shastri were good friends.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020728/nation.htm (4181 words)

	Vice president Krishan Kant passes away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Vice-President Krishan Kant was a veteran freedom fighter, a staunch socialist and a strong votary of poll reforms.
		Krishan Kant was the founding general secretary of the Peoples' Union of Civil Liberties and Democratic Rights, of which Jayprakash Narayan was the President in 1976.
		Kant was appointed governor of Andhra Pradesh by the V.P. Singh government in 1989 and served in that position for seven years till he was elevated as Vice-President.
	www.indembassyhavana.cu /NewsfrmIndia3.htm (576 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kant was admitted to a New Delhi hospital Saturday morning after he complained of severe chest pain.
		Kant's five-year term as vice president, a largely ceremonial post, was due to end next month.
		Kant, who was governor of southern Andhra Pradesh state before he became vice president, fought for independence from Britain.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2002/07/28/new17.html (117 words)

	Print Message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kant was known as a champion of civil liberties.
		Kant was born in Punjab on Feb. 28, 1927, to parents who were active in fighting British rule.
		Kant, whose term as vice president was scheduled to end next month, was a staunch proponent of India's development of nuclear weapons.
	www.suite101.com /print_message.cfm/investing/32382/672769 (336 words)

	rediff.com: T V R Shenoy on Krishan Kant's death
		Let me add that Krishan Kant was an intelligent man, somebody smart enough to realise that his chances of making it to the top job in the land were vanishingly slim.
		Krishan Kant was backed by the Congress, by his old friend I K Gujral, and several others.
		Krishan Kant was at the end of his term, with less than a month to go as vice-president.
	in.rediff.com /news/2002/jul/29flip.htm (940 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| India's vice-president dies
		Kant was admitted to hospital in Delhi on Saturday morning after complaining of chest pains, but he died about an hour later.
		Kant had fought for independence from Britain, and his official biography states that he served time in prison during British colonial rule for his part in the struggle.
		Kant was also one of the founders of the People's Union of Civil Liberties, an influential human rights group in India, and wrote for several newspapers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/2155083.stm (392 words)

	rediff.com: Pall of gloom descends on Kant's village
		Born in 1927, Kant's father Lala Achint Ram was a renowned freedom fighter and a companion of Lala Lajpat Rai.
		Krishan Kant, who took his preliminary education from the village school, frequently visited the village even after becoming the Vice-President.
		"Krishan Kant was deeply attached to his birthplace and whenever we visited him, he would never forget to inquire about the well being of all in the village," one of his old-time friends said.
	in.rediff.com /news/2002/jul/27vp8.htm (330 words)

	WOMENS EMPOWERMENT IS A HOLISTIC CONCEPT: SUMAN KRISHAN KANT - Indlaw News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Smt.Suman Krishan Kant, wife of the Vice President has said that empowerment of women is a holistic concept which covers several aspects.
		Smt.Suman Krishan Kant said that the most disturbing fact which is being pointed by the economists and demographers, time and again, is India's differential sex ration.
		Smt.Suman Krishan Kant said that the all round development of women is also closely linked with their political empowerment.
	www.indlaw.com /news99-0343 (893 words)

	Kant, Krishan -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Kant, who came from a family of devout followers of Mohandas Gandhi, plunged into active politics while still a student and was imprisoned for his involvement in the anti-British…
		Kant, who came from a family of devout followers of Mohandas Gandhi, plunged into active politics while still a student and was imprisoned for...
		Much of Kant's philosophical effort was devoted to arguing that metaphysics, understood as knowledge of things supersensible, is an impossibility.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9390196?tocId=9390196 (711 words)

	PUCL Completes 25 Years
		A brief and solemn function was organised jointly by the National PUCL and the Delhi State branch of the PUCL on October 17th at the Constitution Club, Delhi to mark the completion of 25 ears of the PUCL.
		Shri Krishan Kant, the first General Secretary of the PUCLDR, as the PUCL was known at that time, was the Chief Guest.
		Shri Krishan Kant is at present the Vice President of India.
	www.pucl.org /reports/National/2001/25-years-2.htm (654 words)

	CTV.ca - India's vice-president dead after heart attack - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		Kant was admitted to hospital Saturday morning complaining of serve chest pain.
		Kant, whose ceremonial term was to end this year, was born on Feb. 28, 1927 in the northern farming state of Punjab, and was imprisoned during colonial British rule as he took part in movements against the government, according to his official biography.
		Kant was also one of the founders of the People's Union of Civil Liberties, an influential human rights group.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1027778378527_34?hub=World&subhub=PrintStory (198 words)

	House mourns Krishan Kant's death- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He said that he had special affinity with Krishan Kant who was the governor of the state from February 1990 to August 1997.
		Krishan Kant occupied several important posts in the Congress party and was part of the core group known as the âYoung Turksâ under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, he added.
		Expressing her grief, Speaker K Pratibha Bharati said that Krishan Kant was good writer in Urdu.âHe was accessible to every one and had won the hearts of Telugus during his tenure as governor of the state,â she said.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-17295864,prtpage-1.cms (325 words)

	The political dynamics
		With almost all the Opposition parties informally agreeing on Krishan Kant, the Prime Minister felt that a bitter battle with the Opposition on the issue would not make sense, as the stakes involved in the office of President did not merit such a fight.
		Krishan Kant's tenure as Vice-President was relatively non-controversial, and if he could secure the support of the Opposition as well, there would be no harm in adhering to the convention of elevating the Vice-President to the Presidency, Vajpayee felt.
		His senior colleagues unanimously told him that Krishan Kant would be unacceptable because he was seen more as a nominee of the Third Front.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1913/19130110.htm (2964 words)

	PIB Press Release
		Shri Krishan Kant who began his career as a Scientist with the Council of Scientific and Industrial research was educated at D.A.V. College, Lahore and Benaras Hindu University where he obtained his Master’s degree in Technology.
		A connoisseur of Urdu Poetry, Shri Krishan Kant was a prolific writer who contributed profusely to prominent dailies and periodicals.
		Shri Krishan Kant had been the Member of Rajya Sabha for 11 years from 1966 and thereafter a Member of the Lok Sabha till 1980.
	pib.nic.in /release/release.asp?relid=7369 (353 words)

	Prime Minister's Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is instructive to note that Krishan Kantji was also a member of the Science and Spirituality Committee of the All India Sarva Seva Sangh and strongly advocated the integration of both science and spirituality.
		Krishan Kantji was also deeply committed to electoral reform, often making the point that the success of our democracy rests on the way we maintain the purity and integrity of the electoral process.
		Krishan Kantji's ideas about the way we can stop criminal elements from contesting elections and ways to eliminate the influence of money and muscle power in the electoral process remain relevant even today.
	pmindia.nic.in /speech/content.asp?id=79 (744 words)

	Vice-President Krishan Kant passes away
		Sarma said Kant who suffered a massive heart attack was brought to the hospital at 0738 hrs IST and was declared dead at 0845 hrs IST.
		Kant was one of the quartet along with former prime minister Chandrasekhar, Mohan Dharia and Ram Dhan who formed the ginger group in Congress that was arrested on the midnight of June 25, 1975 when Gandhi imposed Emergency.
		Kant, not known to be having any major health problems, was active till the last day of his life.
	www.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=13142 (324 words)

	Obituary - Krishan Kant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"Shri Krishan Kant, the founding General Secretary of PUCLDR, as the PUCL was known when founded in 1976, died of a heart attack on July 27, 2002.
		"Shri Krishan Kant belonged to a small group in Congress known as Ginger Group or Young Turks when Indira Gandhi was leading the Party, along with Shri Mohan Dharia, Shri Ram Dhan, and Shri Chandrashekhar.
		Suman Krishan Kant is herself also very active in women's movement and has led the Mahila Dakshta Samiti in Delhi for more than twenty-five years along with the late Ms.
	www.pucl.org /Topics/Human-rights/2002/kant.htm (302 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> MP Assembly adjourned after paying tributes to Kant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Assembly was adjourned for the day on July 29 after paying tributes to late Vice-President, Krishan Kant, who passed away on July 27.
		Paying tributes, Chief Minister Digvijay Singh said Kant belonged to the generation whose members had taken part in the Quit India movement in their youth and added that the late leader's family was always associated with Congress and the thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi.
		“Krishan Kant always lived a simple life irrespective of the post he held,” Singh said.
	news.indiainfo.com /2002/07/29/29mp.html (245 words)

	NEED FOR MULTI-PRONGED STRATEGY TO SAVE TIGERS EMPHASISED - Indlaw News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shri Krishan Kant, Vice President of India has said that the encroachment on tiger habitats by humans is acknowledgly the most serious challenge to the tiger's survival, but we need multi-pronged strategies to successfully resolve this issue.
		Inaugurating the Tiger Millennium Conference here today, Shri Krishan Kant said that we have to evolve policies where the people in and around the forests develop a vested interest in the preservation and regeneration of the forests and wild life.
		Shri Krishan Kant said that the progressive commercialisation of the global society has taken an awesome toll of the defenceless animals.
	www.indlaw.com /news99-0091 (576 words)

	LOK SABHA
		Shri Krishan Kant had an abiding faith in Gandhian values of simplicity and was a strong advocate of high ethical standards in public life.
		Shri Krishan Kant was very fond of Urdu Poetry, a passion which he inherited from his upbringing at Lahore.
		Shri Krishan Kant represented the Indian Parliament at the meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union held at Dakar, Senegal in 1968 and visited a number of countries on goodwill missions.
	parliamentofindia.nic.in /lsdeb/ls13/ses10/290702.html (789 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		Mr Kant was rushed to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the morning and the efforts of a panel of doctors to revive him failed.
		Mr Kant will be given a state funeral tomorrow evening at the Nigambodh Ghat on the banks of the Yamuna.
		The resolution drew attention to Mr Kant serving with distinction as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh before being elected as the Vice-President in 1977.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020728/main1.htm (997 words)

	International Literacy Day 1999
		The Hon'ble Vice President of India, Shri Krishan Kant was the chief guest on the occasion.
		Suman Krishan Kant distributed prizes to the winners of the National Essay Competition organised by the Central Directorate of Adult Education.
		The Hon'ble Vice President of India Shri Krishan Kant in his address said that the key role of literacy in the overall developmental process and in the consolidation of democracy has come to be accepted across all shades of opinion.
	www.nlm.nic.in /ild00.htm (710 words)

	National
		Krishan Kant was born on February 28, 1927, at Village Kot Mohammed Khan, Tehsil Taran Taran, District Amritsar, Punjab, in a family of freedom fighters.
		He took active part in the ‘Quit India’ Movement of 1942 while he was a student at Lahore and was arrested alongwith other members of his family.
		He was a connoisseur of Urdu poetry and a prolific writer having contributed profusely to prominent dailies and periodicals on issues relating to national and international politics, culture and science policy.
	www.dayafterindia.com /aug1/vp.html (464 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The gate was open as Kant was about to leave his office to go home.
		Four of the dead police personnel were members of Kant's personal security squad who were waiting with the vice president's car, according to the Press Trust of India.
		Vajpayee was not at parliament at the time of the assault as he had been told not to bother coming as parliament was due to be adjourned, Malhotra said.
	www.dailynews.lk /2001/12/15/wor06.html (387 words)

	Vice president dies after heart attack - theage.com.au
		India's Vice President Krishan Kant, who occupied the nation's second highest ceremonial position, died yesterday after a heart attack, news reports said.
		Kant, whose tenure was to end this year after taking office in 1997, suffered chest pains this morning and his doctors rushed him to the leading All India Institute of Medical Sciences hospital.
		Kant was born on February 28, 1927, in the northern farming state of Punjab.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/07/27/1027497432152.html (328 words)

	Wing Commander(Retd) Krishan Kant Saini, Indian Airforce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Wing Commander(Retd) Krishan Kant Saini, AVSM, Vr.C, VM
		Flt Lt Krishan Kant Saini had been operating in the NEFA area since October 1960.
		On 18th November 1962 along with his co-pilot, he was evacuating seriously injured battle casualties in the Walong area.
	www.geocities.com /siafdu/vc116.html (156 words)

	rediff.com: Nation bids tearful adieu to Krishan Kant
		A grief-stricken nation bid a tearful adieu to Vice-President Krishan Kant, whose mortal remains were consigned to flames amidst the chanting of vedic hymns at the Nigambodh Ghat on the banks of the Yamuna river in Delhi on Sunday evening.
		Several members of the diplomatic corps were also present to pay their last respects to Kant who died in Delhi on Saturday of a massive heart attack.
		Earlier, the body draped in the tricolour was brought from Kant's Maulana Azad Road residence to the Nigambodh Ghat in a gun carriage escorted by personnel of the three armed forces.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/jul/28kant.htm (202 words)

	Lok Sabha seats limited
		NEW DELHI: A hard-hitting inaugural address by Vice President Krishan Kant flagged off a unique conference aimed at examining the relationship between the media and the political process in Commonwealth countries in New Delhi on Tuesday.
		Krishna Kant minced no words in labelling coverage of Parliament proceedings by both the print and electronic media as largely "perfunctory and casual" and "reflecting rather poorly on its understanding of Parliament's functioning".
		Expounding on the theme of "Parliament and the media: building an effective relationship", the Indian Vice-President called for efforts to inculcate better understanding among journalists of the procedures of Parliamentary functioning and balanced coverage of the import of what is said on the floor of the House.
	www.angelfire.com /in/jalnews/150203.html (596 words)

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