INDIA: Draupadi Murmu overcame the majority to become India's next first tribal woman President

editor July 21, 2022 0

INDIA: Droupadi Murmu is the new President of India. She defeated the opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha in the election, the result of which was announced on Thursday (July 21). Murmu, 64, is the first Adivasi and second woman to become the nation’s First Citizen and the Supreme Commander of India’s Armed Forces.

The Supreme Commander of India's Armed Forces, Murmu, 64, is the second woman and the first Adivasi to hold this position. Murmu served as a Minister in Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's BJD-BJP coalition government from 2000 to 2004 and was elected to two terms in the Odisha Assembly in 2000 and 2004. 2015 saw her take the oath of office as Jharkhand's first female governor.

Sinha congratulated Murmu on her victory on Twitter not long after her score passed the halfway point. I congratulate Smt. Droupadi Murmu for winning the presidential election of 2022 along with my fellow compatriots. India hopes that as the Republic's 15th President, she will uphold the Constitution without fear or favour, he wrote.

#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves from the residence of NDA's Presidential candidate #DroupadiMurmu after congratulating her on being elected as the country's President. pic.twitter.com/aM6aIckOxB
— ANI (@ANI) July 21, 2022

PM Narendra Modi congratulates Droupadi Murmu on her victory in the Presidential polls.

"India scripts history. At a time when 1.3 billion Indians are marking Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, a daughter of India hailing from a tribal community born in a remote part of eastern India has been elected our President!

Congratulations to Smt. Droupadi Murmu Ji on this feat."

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter to congratulate Draupadi Murmu, who was elected as the 15th President of India.