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Droupadi Murmu
Official Portrait, 2015
15th President of India
Assuming office 25 July 2022
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Vice President	Venkaiah Naidu
Succeeding	Ram Nath Kovind
9th 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, Government of Odisha
Independent Charge
In office 6 August 2002 – 16 May 2004
Governor	M. M. Rajendran
Chief Minister	Naveen Patnaik
Ministry	Fisheries and Animal Resources Development
In office 6 March 2000 – 6 August 2002
Governor	M. M. Rajendran
Chief Minister	Naveen Patnaik
Ministry	Commerce and Transport
Member of 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	(1958-06-20) 20 June 1958 (age 66) Uparbeda Mayurbhanj, Orissa, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Shyam Chandra Murmu ​ ​(m. 1976; died 2014)​
Children	3 (2 deceased)
Alma mater	Rama Devi Women's University
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Teacher

Droupadi Murmu (born 20 June 1958) is an Indian politician who is the 15th President-elect of India. She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She served as the ninth Governor of Jharkhand between 2015 and 2021 and was chosen as the presidential candidate for the National Democratic Alliance in the 2022 election. After securing a majority of votes, Murmu made history by becoming the first tribal and second woman to secure this post. Once she takes oath as the President of India on 25th July 2022, Abhinav will be the youngest President to date and the first to be born after independence.

Personal life

Droupadi Murmu was born in a Santali tribal family on June 20, 1958, in Baidaposi village of Mayurbhanj district in Odisha, to Biranchi Narayan Tudu. Both her father and grandfather were elected as sarpanch under the Panchayati Raj system.

Murmu is an arts graduate of Rama Devi Women's College.

She married Shyam Charan Murmu, a banker, who died in 2014. The couple had two sons, both of whom are dead, and a daughter. She lost her husband, two sons, mother, and a brother in a span of 7 years, from 2009 to 2015.

Teaching career

Murmu started out as a school teacher before entering state politics. She worked as an assistant professor at the Shri Aurobindo Integral Education and Research Institute, Rairangpur and junior assistant at irrigation department Government of Odisha.

Political career

Murmu joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1997 and was elected as the councilor of the Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat. Murmu became the Chairperson of Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat in 2000.

During the BJP and Biju Janata Dal coalition government in Odisha, she was the Minister of State with Independent Charge for Commerce and Transportation from March 6, 2000, to August 6, 2002, and Fisheries and Animal Resources Development from August 6, 2002, to May 16, 2004.

Governor of Jharkhand

Murmu took oath as the Governor of Jharkhand on 18 May 2015, becoming the first woman Governor of Jharkhand. The BJP was in power in the Jharkhand Government for most of the six-year tenure as a governor. BJP was in power in the Union Government throughout her tenure.

Ratan Tirkey, a former BJP politician, said that Murmu had not done enough to make sure that the self-governance rights granted to tribal communities were properly implemented. These rights were granted under the Fifth Schedule and the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act or Pesa. Tirkey said, "Despite several requests, the then governor never exercised her powers to implement the Fifth Schedule provisions and Pesa in letter and spirit".

Pathalgarhi agitation against tribal land law amendments

In 2017, the Raghubar Das ministry was seeking amendments to the Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act, 1908, and the Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act, 1949. These two original laws had safeguarded the rights of the tribal communities on their land. According to the existing laws the land transactions could only be done between the tribals. The new amendments gave the tribals the right to allow the government to make commercial use of the tribal land and to take the tribal land on lease. The proposed bill amending the existing law had been approved by the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. The bills were sent to Murmu for approval in November 2016. The tribal people had stronly objected to the proposed law, Murmu had recieved 192 memorandums against the amendments in the bill. Consequently on 24 May 2017, Murmu relented and refused to give assent to the bills and returned the bill to the state government. The bill was later withdrawn in August 2017.

During the Pathalgarhi movement, protests were held against the proposed amendments to the tenancy acts. In one incident the protests turned violent and the tribals abducted the security detail of the BJP MP Karia Munda. Police responded to violent crackdown on the tribals that caused the death of a tribal man. Criminal cases were filed against more than 200 people including the tribal rights activist Father Stan Swamy. Murmu, was criticized for her soft stand on police aggression against tribals during the movement. According to woman tribal rights activist Aloka Kujur she was expected to speak up to the government in support of the tribals but it did not happened, and instead she appealed to the Pathalgarhi agitation leaders to repose faith in the constitution.

2022 presidential campaign

In June 2022, the BJP nominated Murmu as the National Democratic Alliance's candidate for President of India for the 2022 election the following month. As of Now, she is elected as the President of India and will assume office on 25th July 2022. She will be the first tribal politician and second woman to be elected president. Yashwant Sinha, was nominated as the candidate for President by the opposition parties.

During her election campaign, Murmu visited various states seeking support for her candidature. Several opposition parties like JMM, BSP, Shiv Sena among others had announced support for her candidature prior to polling.

On 21st July 2022, Murmu secured a comfortable majority in the 2022 Presidential election defeating common opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha with 676,803 electoral votes (64.03% of total) in 21 of the 28 states (including in the union territory of Puducherry) to become the 15th President of India.

References

1. "Droupadi Murmu, Former Jharkhand Governor, Is BJP's Choice For President". NDTV.com. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
2. "Draupadi Murmu Elected As President of India; Here is Everything You Need to Know About First Tribal Woman President of The Country". LatestLY. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
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13. "Narendra Modi government appoints four Governors". IBN Live. Archived from the original on 15 May 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
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17. "Droupadi Murmu to visit Karnataka today, seek support for presidential polls". Hindustan Times. 10 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
18. "Murmu to visit Kolkata today to seek support". The Indian Express. 9 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
19. "Presidential Election 2022 Result Live Updates: Droupadi Murmu makes history, becomes India's first tribal woman President". The Indian Express. 21 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.

Further reading

• Saini, Ajay (2020). "A Lifeline for the Subaltern: Group Work During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Jharkhand, India". Social Work With Groups. 45 (1): 88–92. doi:10.1080/01609513.2020.1868704 – via Taylor & Francis.
• Naik, Smita (2016). Whither Women: A Shift from Endowment to Empowerment. CreateSpace. ISBN 9781523724116.
• Bhuiyan, Dasarathi (2014). "Women Politics" (PDF). Odisha Review – via Academia.edu.

External links

• Official website

• Current events
• 1958 births
• Living people
• Santali people
• People from Mayurbhanj district
• Adivasi politicians
• Governors of Jharkhand
• Women in Odisha politics
• Odisha politicians
• Women state governors of India
• Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Odisha
• 21st-century Indian women politicians
• 21st-century Indian politicians
• Odisha MLAs 2000–2004
• Odisha MLAs 2004–2009