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.

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.

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.

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