Droupadi Murmu, first tribal woman elected as president of India
Politician and tribal leader Droupadi Murmu was elected this Thursday as the president of India, obtaining 2,824 votes out of 4,754
Droupadi Murmu has been elected this Thursday as the president of India after having obtained the support of more than half of Parliament, thus succeeding Ram Nath Kovind, who had been in office since 2017.
At 64 years old, Murmu, has become the fifteenth president of India since its independence in 1947, and the first tribal woman in charge of the country after obtaining 2,824 of the 4,754 votes cast, according to the spokesman for the Parliament of India. India, Pramod Chandra Mody, as reported by Hindustan Times.
Murmu is the successor to the current president, Ram Nath Kovind, whose term ends on July 24, after defeating opposition candidate Yashwant Singh.
Thus, she has become the second woman to occupy the highest position in the country and the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has reported in a statement that of the 4,754 votes cast, Murmu obtained 2,824.
“A daughter of India from a tribal community born in a remote part of eastern India has been elected our president,” Modri stressed, as reported by ‘The Hindu’.
Thus, he highlighted: “She has become a ray of hope for our citizens, especially for the poor, marginalized and oppressed.”
Most of the inhabitants of the village of Uparbeda, in eastern India, where Murmu is originally from, have celebrated the election of the new president in the street by singing and dancing and tribal artists have played drums and distributed sweets.
Source: dpa
