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Droupadi Murmu has won the presidential elections in 2022 and will become the 15th president of India. She is the first woman hailing from a tribal community who will be the nation’s First Citizen and the Supreme Commander of India’s Armed Forces. It is worth noting that Ms. Murmu is going to be the only Indian president who is born after Independence to date. Moving on towards this trending news in India, have a look at some interesting facts about Ms. Murmu. ● Born and brought up in a Santhal family in 1958, Murmu was the first girl in Uparbeda, one of the seven revenue villages in Uparbeda panchayat in Odisha’s backward Mayurbhanj district, who attended the Ramadevi Women’s College, now the Ramadevi Women’s University in Bhubaneswar.
● Before entering into politics, Murmu was employed as a teacher in the Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Centre in Rairangpur in Mayurbhanj. She then went on and worked as a junior assistant in the irrigation and power department of the Odisha government. ● She entered politics by winning Nagar Panchayat elections from Rairangpur in 1997. Then 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 Naveen Patnaik’s BJD-BJP coalition government. ● She became the vice-president of BJP’s Scheduled Tribes Morcha. ● From 2000-2004, she worked as a minister for several departments including Commerce and Transport, Fisheries, and Animal Husbandry in the state government. ● In 2009, Murmu contested the Lok Sabha election from the Mayurbhanj constituency but lost as the BJD and BJP broke ties. ● In her personal life, she went through a series of struggles as she lost her eldest son Laxman Murmu in 2009 and her younger son Sippun Murmu in 2013. Her husband Shyam Charan Murmu died in 2014. ● She then went on to become the first woman governor of Jharkhand in 2015. ● A Santhal leader who began her career as a teacher and became the President of the largest democracy in the world, Ms. Mumru is looked upon by many as an inspiration. ● Aged 64, she also comes with views about the translation of literature on Adivasi languages and culture. Read More News -
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