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Draupadi Murmu: The journey from being a junior assistant in the irrigation and power department in Odisha to being nominated as the BJP-led NDA’s presidential candidate has been a long and difficult journey for tribal leader Draupadi Murmu.
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Draupadi Murmu, former governor of Jharkhand and tribal leader (Draupadi Murmu) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance in the upcoming presidential election (NDA) will be the candidate. Party President Jagat Prakash Nadda on Tuesday after the BJP Parliamentary Board meeting (JP Nadda) announced his candidature. From a junior assistant in the irrigation and power department in Odisha to being nominated as the BJP-led NDA’s presidential nominee, tribal leader Draupadi Murmu’s journey has been a long and difficult one. Three times the mountain of sorrows also broke on him. After the death of her husband, Draupadi Murmu also lost her two sons. Let us tell you that if Murmu wins the presidential election, then she will be the first President of India to belong to the tribal community.
Know some special things related to his life
- 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 born to Vivi Ganesh Hembram. Draupadi’s family now consists of her daughter Iti, granddaughter and son-in-law.
- 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 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, battling poverty and other problems, 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.
- 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 the BJP. He was also nominated as a member of BJP National Executive (ST Morcha) in 2013.
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