Droupadi Murmu: President of India since 2022
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.
Droupadi Murmu | |
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 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| 15th President of India | |
| Assumed office 25 July 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Vice President | Venkaiah Naidu Jagdeep Dhankhar |
| Preceded by | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 8th Governor of Jharkhand | |
| In office 18 May 2015 – 12 July 2021 | |
| Chief Minister | Raghubar Das Hemant Soren |
| Preceded by | Syed Ahmed |
| Succeeded by | Ramesh Bais |
| 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 | 20 June 1958 Mayurbhanj, Odisha, India |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Spouse(s) | Shyam Charan Murmu (m. 1978; his death 2014) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Rama Devi Women’s College, Bhubaneswar |
| Profession | Politician |
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. She was former Odisha Minister and an MLA from Rairangpur assembly constituency in the years 2000 and 2004.
Governor
She is the first woman Governor of Jharkhand. 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.
Presidency
Campaign
In June 2022, the BJP picked Murmu as the National Democratic Alliance's candidate for President of India in the 2022 election.
On 21 July 2022, Murmu was announced as the winner of the election, having won in a landslide victory. She is the first adivasi politician to be elected president and the country's second female president.
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| Government offices | ||
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| Preceded by Syed Ahmed | Governor of Jharkhand May 2015 – July 2021 | Succeeded by Ramesh Bais |
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