Droupadi Murmu

Droupadi Murmu
Droupadi Murmu
द्रौपदी मुर्मू
	Official portrait, 2022
15th President of India
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 25 July 2022
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Vice President	M. Venkaiah Naidu; Jagdeep Dhankhar;
Preceded by	Ram Nath Kovind
8th Governor of Jharkhand
	In office; 18 May 2015 – 12 July 2021
Chief Ministers	Raghubar Das; Hemant Soren
Preceded by	Syed Ahmed
Succeeded by	Ramesh Bais
Minister of State of Odisha
	Independent Charge
	In office; 6 August 2002 – 16 May 2004
Chief Minister	Naveen Patnaik
Ministry	Fisheries and Animal Resources Development
	In office; 6 March 2000 – 6 August 2002
Chief Minister	Naveen Patnaik
Ministry	Commerce and Transport
Member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly
	In office; 5 March 2000 – 21 May 2009
Preceded by	Laxman Majhi
Succeeded by	Shyam Charan Hansdah
Constituency	Rairangpur
Personal details
Born	Durgi Biranchi Tudu; 20 June 1958 (age 66); Uparbeda, Mayurbhanj, Odisha, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)	Shyam Charan Murmu; (m. 1980; died 2014)
Children	3
Residence	Rashtrapati Bhawan (primary)
Alma mater	Utkal University (BA)
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Teacher
Website	Official website

Droupadi Murmu (born 20 June 1958) is an Indian politician who is the 15th President of India since 2022. She was the 8th Governor of Jharkhand from May 2015 to July 2021. She is the first governor of Jharkhand to finish the 5-year term. She was elected president after winning the 2022 election in a landslide victory. She is the youngest and first individual born after India's independence in 1947 to have been elected president.^[2]

Personal life

Droupadi Murmu was married to Shyam Charan Murmu. The couple had two sons and a daughter. Her husband and her two sons died.

State politics

During the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Biju Janata Dal coalition government in Odisha, She was the Minister of State with independent charge for Commerce and Transport from March 6, 2000 to August 6, 2002 and Fisheries and Animal Resources Development from August 6, 2002 to May 16, 2004.^[3] She was former Odisha Minister and an MLA from Rairangpur assembly constituency in the years 2000 and 2004.^[4]

Governor

She is the first woman Governor of Jharkhand.^[5]^[6] She is the first woman and tribal leader Archived 2022-06-22 at the Wayback Machine from Odisha to be appointed a governor in an Indian state.^[7]^[8]

Presidency

Campaign

In June 2022, the BJP picked Murmu as the National Democratic Alliance's candidate for President of India in the 2022 election.^[9]

Chief Justice N. V. Ramana administering the oath of the office to President-elect Murmu.

On 21 July 2022, Murmu was announced as the winner of the election, having won in a landslide victory.^[10] She is the first adivasi politician to be elected president and the country's second female president.^[10]

Tenure

Murmu spoke to the nation for the first time as president on 14 August 2022, the eve of the 75th Independence Day.^[11]

In September 2022, she launched a government program 'Pradhanmantri TB mukht Bharat' – an initiative to eradicate tuberculosis from the country.^[12] She became the first President of India to inaugurate the 'Mysuru Dasara', a ten-day state festival in Karnataka.^[13]

Droupadi Murmu Media

Governor Murmu with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015
Murmu with Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu in New Delhi in 2017
Murmu speaking before the 75th Independence Day, August 2022
President Murmu at the President's official residence, Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu took a historic sortie in a Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter aircraft at the Tezpur Air Force Station, in Assam on April 8, 2023.
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