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Droupadi Murmu: India’s Youngest President and First to be Born After Independence


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Draupadi Murmu was elected India’s 15th President on Thursday, and with this, the country got its first-ever tribal President. Murmu, who managed to get a huge margin against rival Yashwant Sinha, has a series of firsts to her name. She is not just the first tribal to occupy India’s top constitutional post, but at the age of 64, Murmu will also be the youngest and India’s first president to be born after Independence.

She was also the first woman to have been appointed as the Jharkhand governor in 2015. With that post, Murmu also became the first tribal woman from her home state of Odisha to become a governor.

Murmu is a seasoned tribal leader from the Santal ethnic group. The Santals form the largest tribe in Jharkhand and are also present in Assam, Tripura, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and West Bengal.

Born on June 20, 1958, in Baidaposi village of Mayurbhanj district, Murmu began her political career in 1997 as a councillor and vice-chairperson of the Rairangpur civic body. In the same year, she was appointed the vice-president of the Odisha BJP’s ST morcha.

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The presidential and vice presidential electoral fights were largely symbolic with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA)’s candidates expected to win from the start. But it is the nature of the current presidential election, with Murmu polling over 60 per cent of all votes, that has exposed the fissures in the opposition ranks and even inside the UPA camp. As many as 17 MPs and over 125 MLAs cross-voted for Droupadi Murmu, apart from about half-a-dozen non-NDA parties that refused to side with the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA). The number of cross-voting MLAs is expected to further go up when the counting is complete.

Worse, the Trinamool Congress on Thursday announced that it would abstain from voting in the vice presidential elections and not side with UPA candidate Margaret Alva, unlike the case of voting for Yashwant Sinha in the presidential elections. TMC, one of the largest opposition parties in Parliament, said it was not consulted by the Congress before Alva was announced as the UPA’s vice president pick.

This is expected to pave the way for a similar big victory for NDA’s vice presidential candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar, who incidentally was the thorn in the eye of the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal as the governor. The UPA failing to bring the TMC on board for its VP nominee is, hence, a telling blow to the efforts towards forming a larger opposition front against the Narendra Modi-led BJP come 2024, and signals an even bigger falling-out between the Congress and Trinamool, the two biggest opposition parties.

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12 minutes ago, Spartan said:

The presidential and vice presidential electoral fights were largely symbolic with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA)’s candidates expected to win from the start. But it is the nature of the current presidential election, with Murmu polling over 60 per cent of all votes, that has exposed the fissures in the opposition ranks and even inside the UPA camp. As many as 17 MPs and over 125 MLAs cross-voted for Droupadi Murmu, apart from about half-a-dozen non-NDA parties that refused to side with the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA). The number of cross-voting MLAs is expected to further go up when the counting is complete.

Worse, the Trinamool Congress on Thursday announced that it would abstain from voting in the vice presidential elections and not side with UPA candidate Margaret Alva, unlike the case of voting for Yashwant Sinha in the presidential elections. TMC, one of the largest opposition parties in Parliament, said it was not consulted by the Congress before Alva was announced as the UPA’s vice president pick.

This is expected to pave the way for a similar big victory for NDA’s vice presidential candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar, who incidentally was the thorn in the eye of the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal as the governor. The UPA failing to bring the TMC on board for its VP nominee is, hence, a telling blow to the efforts towards forming a larger opposition front against the Narendra Modi-led BJP come 2024, and signals an even bigger falling-out between the Congress and Trinamool, the two biggest opposition parties.

Tmc n ycp n trs are musugu pushpams

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3 minutes ago, futureofandhra said:

Tmc n ycp n trs are musugu pushpams

TMC and the VP candidate (WB Bengal Guv) are at logger heads from last 4 years..

and still they are missing out on voting him out of the race, even if they can...

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11 minutes ago, Spartan said:

TMC and the VP candidate (WB Bengal Guv) are at logger heads from last 4 years..

and still they are missing out on voting him out of the race, even if they can...

Ushhhh maaku avi anni telvadu. Wb assembly elections lo entha racha jarigindo maaku kanapadadu. Mamatha mla ga odipoyindi maaku kanapadadu. Post elections bjp cadre ni samputhundi kanapadadhu… tmc is musugu bjp…, cbn okkadey magadu(ala cheppi cbn ni troll chepistharu daggarundi)

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7 minutes ago, Vaampire said:

Tdp enti mari??? EvAriki vote vesaru enti?

atla etla marusthav swami stand. Trs bjp hand in glove antav. Malli next day trs has guts to fight antav.

tmc ni musugu bjp annav antey ninnu mesuem lo pettali saami. Wb lo bjp activists ni left right champuthunnaru tmc goons and still tmc is musugu bjp lol… bjp ki eppudu eppudu bj idhama ani waiting sethunna cbn mathram fighter… lol

Antha Logical ga adigithe Jump. Malla kotta thread tho coming. This is @niranthrapakriya

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46 minutes ago, Spartan said:

United Opposition ledu bokka ledu...

heavy cross voting.

Desh ki neta gadu ...erri fook ayyadu..  :giggle:

mukku ki kuda telusu gelvadu ani... 

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4 minutes ago, ZoomNaidu said:

Monna @Higher_Purpose cheppinatu NATIONAL highway meedha Lapaaki mana Baboru 😂😂

 

Bjp congi trs jsp cpi cpm. Okka state lo inni parties tho pothu pettukodam never before never after

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51 minutes ago, Spartan said:

United Opposition ledu bokka ledu...

Cc: Sepithe vinali kadamma @Lovecrusader

United opposition anedi oka myth…Mamata is the face of United Opposition ante igo Vice President polls lo participate kuda cheyatledu…

 

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9 minutes ago, ZoomNaidu said:

Monna @Higher_Purpose cheppinatu NATIONAL highway meedha Lapaaki mana Baboru 😂😂

 

Anthega… adhi kuda vijayawada - Hyderabad highway. Correct ga suryapet lo untadu … 

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