Droupadi murmu

Premium The Sunday Profile | Droupadi Murmu: Raisina Calling With NDA Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu set for a near-certain win, Abhishek Angad visits her home in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district to trace her journey— from being the first girl in her village to go to college to now being possibly India’s first tribal president. November 2016 marked a tumultuous period in Jharkhand. The Raghubar Das-led BJP government had passed amendments to two centuries-old land laws — the Chotanagpur Tenancy (CNT) and Santhal Pargana Tenancy (SPT) Acts — that would have ensured easy transfer of land for industrial use. As the amendments led to massive protests by tribal communities across the state and with close to 200 delegations calling on then Governor Droupadi Murmu, eight months later, in June 2017, she returned the laws asking the government to clarify how the amendments would benefit tribals. A key Raj Bhavan staffer who was privy to the events around that time says Murmu mulled over at the laws at a close-door meeting, at the end of which she made up her mind to send them back, saying, “Mere kalam se koi injustice nahi hoga (I will not let any injustice happen).” As she sat it out for more than a year after her tenure as Governor, many in the Opinion | Murmu’s sister-in-law Sakramani Tudu recounts that when, after school, she expressed a wish to study further — unheard of in their Santhali household — the family approached a distant relative, an MLA, for help. “The MLA told ...

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. Here are five things about the new incumbent of Rashtrapati Bhavan, who takes office in the historic 75th year of the nation’s Independence. Murmu has been a trailblazer from a very young age. Born into a Santhal family in 1958, she was the first girl in Uparbeda, one of the seven revenue villages in Uparbeda panchayat in Odisha’s backward Mayurbhanj district, to go to college — the Ramadevi Women’s College, now the Ramadevi Women’s University in Bhubaneswar. Before beginning her career in politics, Murmu was a teacher at the Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Centre in Rairangpur in Mayurbhanj, and later worked as a junior assistant in the irrigation and power department of the Odisha government. Successful political career Murmu won an election to the Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat in 1997, and served as councillor. She was elected to two terms in the Odisha Assembly in 2000 and 2004, and served as a Minister from 2000 to 2004 in Chief Minister She held the portfolio of Commerce and Transport and, subsequently, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry in the state government. As Transport Minister of Odisha, she was credited with having set up transport offices in all 58 subdivisions of the state. The el...

She will replace President Ramnath Kovind — whose tenure ends this week — and become the second woman to hold the post after Pratibha Patil, who served from 2007 to 2012. More than Who is Droupadi Murmu and what is her background? Ms Murmu is from the Santhal tribe in eastern Odisha state. She was born to a village headman in Baidaposi in 1958. Before entering politics, she worked as a schoolteacher and later as a junior assistant in the irrigation department until 1983. She was married to Shyam Charan Murmu and had two sons and a daughter. Both her sons and her husband are dead. An arts graduate, Ms Murmu has spent nearly two decades in politics and social services. Ms Murmu has won strong support from the BJP’s allies and if elected, she would be the first tribal member to hold the presidency and become the first president born after India’s independence in 1947. How did she become involved in politics? Ms Murmu was elected as a village councillor in 1997 and later served as the vice president for the BJP’s tribal wing. She entered formal politics after becoming a junior minister, holding the portfolio of commerce and transport, in the BJP and Odisha state’s Biju Janata Dal coalition government in 2000. She was chosen by the Odisha Assembly as the best legislator of the year in 2007. She was appointed the first tribal governor of Jharkhand, a tribe-dominated state, in 2015. Known for her accessibility and a down-to-earth attitude, she was described as a “compassionate an...

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In June 2022, the BJP nominated Murmu as the Murmu visited various states as part of the campaign around the country seeking support for her candidature, from BJP lawmakers and other opposition parties. She visited NE states, the Controversies stirred over when Congress called Murmu a dummy candidate of the BJP through its tweet. Oaths Administered [ ] Oaths of Office administered by Murmu Date Taken By Office References 3 August 2022 Suresh N. Patel 11 August 2022 27 August 2022 9 November 2022 29 May 2023 Praveen Kumar Srivastava International outreach [ ] Hosted delegation [ ] • Deutsche Welle . Retrieved 22 July 2022. • Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 2022-07-05 . Retrieved 2022-07-19. • Hindustan Times. 2022-07-10 . Retrieved 2022-07-19. • The Indian Express. 2022-07-09 . Retrieved 2022-07-19. • Hindustan Times. 22 June 2022 . Retrieved 25 July 2022. • ". Hindustan Times. 17 July 2022 . Retrieved 25 July 2022. • ". Free Press Journal . Retrieved 2022-07-23. • Bureau, The Hindu (2022-08-03). The Hindu. . Retrieved 2022-08-27. • Bureau, The Hindu (2022-08-11). The Hindu. . Retrieved 2022-08-27. • Bureau, The Hindu (2022-08-10). The Hindu. . Retrieved 2022-08-10. • Bureau, The Hindu (2022-11-09). The Hindu. . Retrieved 2022-11-09. • The Hindu. 2023-05-29. . Retrieved 2023-05-29. • Admin, India Education Diary Bureau (29 July 2022). . Retrieved 2022-07-31. • PTI (2022-07-29). ThePrint . Retrieved 2022-07-31. • Hindustan Times. 2022-09-18 . Retrieved 2023-05...