Droupadi Murmu

**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.

## Personal life

Droupadi Murmu was married to Shyam Charan Murmu. The couple had three children. Her husband died in 2014 from cardiac arrest. Her two sons also 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 tribal leader  from Odisha to be appointed a governor in an Indian state.

### 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.

### Tenure

Murmu spoke to the nation for the first time as president on 14 August 2022, the eve of the 75th Independence Day.

In September 2022, she launched a government program 'Pradhanmantri TB mukht Bharat' – an initiative to eradicate tuberculosis from the country. She became the first President of India to inaugurate the 'Mysuru Dasara', a ten-day state festival in Karnataka.

## Other websites

- Presidential Nominee

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **embed**: yes
- **status3**: Independent Charge
- **term start3**: 6 August 2002
- **term end3**: 16 May 2004
- **3blankname3**: List of chief ministers of Odisha, Chief Minister
- **3namedata3**: Naveen Patnaik
- **4blankname3**: Ministry
- **4namedata3**: Fisheries and Animal Resources Development
- **4blankname4**: Ministry
- **4namedata4**: Commerce and Transport
- **3blankname4**: List of chief ministers of Odisha, Chief Minister
- **3namedata4**: Naveen Patnaik
- **term start4**: 6 March 2000
- **term end4**: 6 August 2002


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Droupadi Murmu
- **image**: Droupadi Murmu POI official portrait.jpg
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2025
- **order**: 15th
- **office**: President of India
- **primeminister**: Narendra Modi
- **term start**: 25 July 2022
- **predecessor**: Ram Nath Kovind
- **office2**: 8th Governor of Jharkhand
- **term start2**: 18 May 2015
- **term end2**: 12 July 2021
- **1blankname2**: List of chief ministers of Jharkhand, Chief Ministers
- **1namedata2**: Raghubar Das
Hemant Soren
- **predecessor2**: Syed Ahmed (politician), Syed Ahmed
- **successor2**: Ramesh Bais
- **office3**: Government of Odisha, Minister of State of Odisha
- **office5**: Member of Legislative Assembly (India), Member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly
- **term start5**: 5 March 2000
- **term end5**: 21 May 2009
- **predecessor5**: Laxman Majhi
- **successor5**: Shyam Charan Hansdah
- **constituency5**: Rairangpur Assembly constituency, Rairangpur
- **party**: Bharatiya Janata Party
- **birth name**: Durgi Biranchi Tudu
- **birth place**: Uparbeda, Mayurbhanj district, Mayurbhanj, Odisha, India
- **children**: 2
- **alma mater**: Utkal University (Bachelor of Arts, BA)
- **occupation**: Politician
- **profession**: Teacher
- **residence**: Rashtrapati Bhawan (primary)
- **native name lang**: hi