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Draupadi Murmu was married to Shyam Charan Murmu and the couple had three children… two sons and a daughter. Murmu’s life has been full of personal tragedies as she has lost her husband and both sons.
Draupadi Murmu, former governor of Jharkhand and tribal leaderDraupadi MurmuBJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has been declared the Presidential candidate. After the parliamentary board meeting, party president JP Nadda announced his candidature on Tuesday. Draupadi Murmu has thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making herself the Presidential candidate. In the Parliamentary Board meeting, 20 names were churned for the President’s candidature, after which Draupadi Murmu’s name was stamped.
Expressing gratitude to PM Modi, Draupadi Murmu said, ‘Thank you Prime Minister Modi for reposing faith in me.’ Let us tell you that the journey from a junior assistant in the Irrigation and Power Department in Odisha to being nominated as the Presidential candidate by the BJP-led NDA has been a very long and difficult journey for tribal leader Draupadi Murmu. If elected, Murmu will be the first President of India to belong to the tribal community.
Minister in Odisha government formed in 2000
Born in the Santhal community, Murmu started her political career as a councilor in Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat in 1997 and became a minister in the Odisha government in the year 2000. Later he also took over the responsibility of the Governor of Jharkhand in 2015. Murmu, a two-time MLA from Rairangpur, had held on to her assembly seat in 2009 even after the BJD broke ties with the BJP a few weeks before the state elections, in which Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s party BJD won.
Born on June 20, 1958, Murmu also holds the distinction of becoming the first woman governor of Jharkhand. Hailing from a highly backward and remote district, Murmu graduated in arts from Ramadevi Women’s College in Bhubaneswar and started her career as a junior assistant in the Odisha government’s irrigation and power department, battling poverty and other problems.
lost her husband and two sons
Murmu was awarded the Neelkanth Award for the best MLA of the year by the Odisha Legislative Assembly in 2007. He has experience in handling ministries like Transport, Commerce, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry in the Government of Odisha. Murmu was also the vice-president and later president of the Scheduled Tribes Morcha of the Odisha unit of BJP. He was also nominated as a member of BJP National Executive (ST Morcha) in 2013. Murmu was married to Shyam Charan Murmu and the couple had three children… two sons and one daughter. Murmu’s life has been full of personal tragedies as she has lost her husband and both sons. His daughter Itishree is married to Ganesh Hembram.
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