Lower House Speaker Manohar Joshi (from right), Vice President Krishan
Kant, new Indian President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, outgoing President K.
R. Narayanan and Chief Justice of India B.N. Kirpal sit inside the
parliament building during the swearing-in-ceremony for Kalam as new
president in New Delhi July 25, 2002. Kalam, a prominent Muslim, known
as the father of India's nuclear missile programme, was sworn in on
Thursday as India's president in a move seen as bolstering the nation's
secular credentials after a wave of religious violence. REUTERS/Pawel
Kopczynski

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