Former Governor of Jharkhand Draupadi Murmu is now India’s President. Ruling NDA’s Draupadi Murmu and Opposition’s Yashwant Sinha are against each other in the contest, with huge win Droupadi Murmu will be the first tribal woman to occupy the top constitutional post in the country.
Droupadi Murmu has come a long way to reach where she is today.
India’s First Tribal & Second Woman President has overcome many personal tragedies in her life.
In just six years between 2009-2015, Droupadi Murmu lost her husband, two sons, mother and brother.
According to reports, it was then the tribal leader became a keen practitioner of the meditation techniques of the Brahma Kumaris, a movement she embrace after her personal losses.
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Droupadi Murmu Lost Near and Dear
Droupadi Murmu had three children, two sons and a daughter with her husband Shyam Charan Murmu.
According to news reports, one of her sons died under mysterious circumstances in 2009 while her second son pass away in a road accident three years later.
She had lost her husband earlier because of cardiac arrest.
Droupadi Murmu’s daughter Itishree works in a bank in Odisha.
How it Start for Droupadi Murmu
Born on 20th June, 1958, Droupadi Murmu was the first woman governor of Jharkhand.
Droupadi Murmu will also be the first president to be born after Independence.
Former Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal said :
“She has been through a lot of pain and struggle, but doesn’t get rattled by adversity,”.
Born into a Santhal family, she is an excellent orator in Santhali and Odia languages, Samal said.
He add that she had work extensively to improve infrastructure such as roads and ports in the region.
The tribal-dominated Mayurbhanj has the focus of the BJP, which is eyeing a strong foothold in the state.
The BJD snap ties with the BJP in 2009 and has consolidate its hold over Odisha since then.
Droupadi Murmu Journey
It is from Rairangpur that she took her first step up the BJP ladder.
Droupadi Murmu was a councillor in the Rairangpur Notified Area Council in 1997 and rose to being a minister in Odisha’s BJD-BJP coalition government from 2000 to 2004.
In 2015, she was appoint governor of Jharkhand and stay in the post till 2021.
Droupadi Murmu had contest the 2014 assembly election from Rairangpur, but lost to the BJD candidate.
After completing her tenure as Jharkhand governor, Droupadi Murmu devote her time to meditation and social work in Rairangpur.
“I am surprised as well as delighted. As a tribal woman from remote Mayurbhanj district, I had not thought about becoming the candidate for the top post,” Droupadi Murmu told reporters at her Rairangpur residence.
Droupadi Murmu Said :
“I was not expecting this opportunity. I have not been attending any political programmes for more than six years after becoming the governor of neighbouring Jharkhand. I hope all will support me,”.
Belonging to Mayurbhanj, one of the most remote and underdeveloped districts of the country, Droupadi Murmu earn her Bachelor’s degree in Arts from Bhubaneswar’s Ramadevi Women’s College in Bhubaneswar and serve as a junior assistant in the irrigation and power department in the Odisha government.
Droupadi Murmu also serve as an honorary assistant teacher in the Shri Aurobindo Integral Education Centre in Rairangpur.
She was award the Nilkanth Award for the Best MLA of the year in 2007 by the Odisha Legislative assembly.
She has diverse administrative experience having handle ministries such as transport, commerce, fisheries and animal husbandry in the Odisha government.
In the BJP, Droupadi Murmu was vice president and later president of the Schedule Tribe Morcha in Odisha.
Droupadi Murmu was elected the district president of Mayurbhanj (West) unit of the BJP in 2010 and re-elected in 2013.
She was also name as a member of the BJP National Executive (ST Morcha) the same year.
Droupadi Murmu held the post of district president till April 2015 when she was appoint as the Governor of Jharkhand.
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