Draupadi Murmu scripts history by becoming first Tribal President of India
Draupadi Murmu is all set to be the 15th President of India and the country's second female President
New Delhi,July 22: NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is all set to become the 15th President of India. The counting of votes for the Presidential election 2022 was held at the Parliament House. The counting of votes for Presidential Election 2022 commenced at 11 am on Thursday (July 21, 2022) with the contest between BJP-led NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu and joint Opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha.
Droupadi Murmu secured 2824 first preference votes-value of which is 6,76,803, while her rival Yashwant Sinha bagged 1,877 first preference votes– value of which is 3,80,177 votes, Returning Officer P C Mody said announcing Droupadi Murmu as the 15th President of India.
Who is Draupadi Murmu know here:
- Draupadi Murmu was born in 1958, in the district of Mayurbhanj in Odisha. She completed her education at Unit II High School and Rama Devi College, both in Bhubaneswar.
- She went on to work as a junior assistant in the State Irrigation and Power Department from 1979 to 1983, and then as a teacher at Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Centre at Rairangpur till 1997.
- She lost both her sons and her husband several years back. She has a daughter Itishri Murmu who works at UCO bank in Odisha. Itishri got married to Ganesh Hembram, who is a rugby player, in 2015. They have a little daughter, as reported by ABP live.
- Murmu is a keen practitioner of the meditation techniques of the Brahma Kumaris, a movement she embraced after she lost her loved ones. Around 13 years ago Murmu first got connected with the Brahma Kumari Sansthan in Mount Abu in Rajasthan, as reported by IANS.
- Murmu first joined politics in 1997 when she was elected councilor of the district board in Rairangpur. She would then go on to become a MLA from the same constituency.
- Murmu served twice as an MLA and once as a minister in the BJD-BJP coalition government in Odisha, before being sworn in as the Governor of Jharkhand on May 18, 2015. Murmu stayed in the post till 2021 before moving to her village in Rairangpur, as reported by ABP live.
- She was the first woman Governor of the state and the first female tribal leader to serve as a Governor in any Indian state.