On July 25, 2022, Draupadi Murmu took the oath of office as India’s fifteenth president. She ran against Yashwant Sinha, the candidate for the top constitutional position put up by the unified opposition. Tribal leader Draupadi Murmu hails from Rairangpur in the Odisha province of Mayurbhanj. A leader with a quiet voice, Draupadi Murmu entered Odisha politics via pure effort. After winning the presidential election in 2022, Draupadi Murmu became the second woman and first indigenous person to hold the highest office.
Draupadi Murmu was born on June 20, 1958, in Uparbeda village of Mayurbhanj district in Odisha in a Santali tribal family to Biranchi Narayan Tudu. Bother her father and grandfather were village heads under the Panchayati Raj Systems.
On May 18, 2015, Draupadi Murmu took the oath of office to become the first female governor of Jharkhand. She was selected as the Indian State’s first female governor and is a tribal leader from Odisha.
When Draupadi Murmu was the governor of Jharkhand in 2017, she declined to sign a measure that sought to change the Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act of 1908 and the Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act of 1949.
The legislation aimed to preserve the land’s ownership while simultaneously granting the Tribes the freedom to exploit it for commercial purposes.
Draupadi Murmu was chosen by the BJP in June 2022 to represent the National Democratic Alliance in the 2022 Indian presidential election. As part of the Presidential Campaign 2022, she travelled to different states to lobby BJP lawmakers and representatives from other opposition parties to support her candidacy.
When Draupadi Murmu visited the NE states, she received support from a number of well-known opposition groups, including the BJD of Odisha, the JMM Party of Jharkhand, the Shiv Sena of Maharashtra, the BSP of Uttar Pradesh, the JDS of Karnataka, and many others.
On July 25, 2022, Draupadi Murmu took the oath of office as India’s fifteenth president. In the Central Hall of Parliament, the Chief Justice of India, N.V. Ramana, administered her oath. Ram Nath Kovind, the outgoing president of India, and Draupadi Murmu entered the Parliament in a formal parade just before the swearing-in began.
The Indian President, Draupadi Murmu, thanked the MPs and MLAs in her speech for choosing her to serve as the country’s first tribal leader. She declared, “I am the first President of the country who was born in Independent India,” in her inaugural speech as head of the largest democracy in the world. To live up to the demands of our freedom fighters, we must expedite our efforts.
Political Timeline
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2022Draupadi Murmu currently serves as the 15th President of India. She secured over 64% votes in the presidential election held on 18 July 2022 to defeat Yashwant Sinha by a thumping margin.
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2015Draupadi Murmu was appointed the governor of Jharkhand. She was the first one to successfully complete the term of the Jharkhand governor.
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2006Draupadi Mumru was appointed the president of BJP Schedule Tribe Morcha, Odisha unit.
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2004She was again elected as an MLA from the same Rairangpur constituency on a BJP ticket.
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2002She was appointed as a M.O.S for fisheries and animal husbandry in the Odisha state government. She remained in the office until 2004.
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2000Elected to the Odisha legislative assembly from Rairangpur constituency as a BJP MLA. She was also inducted into the Naveen Patanaik-led BJD-BJP government as a minister of state, under independent charge.
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1997Elected as a councillor of Rairangpur district in Odisha. She also became the vice chairperson of Rairangpur.
