NDA Names Draupadi Murmu As Its Presidential Candidate ; from Councilor To Presidential Candidacy..

New Delhi : NDA has announced its candidate for the presidential election. The party has nominated Draupadi Murmu as its candidate. BJP National President JP Nadda said that the BJP Parliamentary Board discussed 20 names for the presidential candidate, after which it was decided to choose a tribal woman from eastern India. Draupadi Murmu will be the BJP candidate for the post of President. Draupadi Murmu, who belongs to the tribal society, has been the governor of Jharkhand for six years and a month. Murmu hails from Rairangpur, Odisha. She is 64 years old.

Talking about Draupadi Murmu’s life, the journey from being a junior assistant in the Irrigation and Power Department in Odisha to being nominated as the presidential candidate from the BJP-led NDA has been a long and difficult one for tribal leader Murmu. NDA candidate Murmu was born on 20 June 1958 in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha. 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.

Started political career as a councilor

Hailing from the Santhal community, Murmu started her political career in 1997 as a councilor in Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat. Later she became the Vice President of the Rairangpur National Advisory Council. In 2013, she rose to the rank of a national executive member of the party’s ST Morcha. Draupadi Murmu was the Minister of State for Fisheries and Animal Resource Development with independent charge for commerce and transport from 2000–2002, during the Bharatiya Janata Party and Biju Janata Dal coalition government in Odisha.

Awarded with Neelkanth Award for Best MLA

Murmu was awarded the Neelkanth Award for the best MLA of the year by the Odisha Legislative Assembly in 2007. 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.

The Family

Murmu was married to Shyam Charan Murmu and the couple has 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. Her daughter Itishree is married to Ganesh Hembram.

Will be the first tribal president after being elected

She was MLA from the Rairangpur assembly constituency of Odisha in the years 2000 and 2004. She was the first woman to take oath as the Governor of Jharkhand in 2015. She has been the first woman tribal leader to be appointed governor. After being elected, Draupadi Murmu will be India’s first tribal president and second woman president. Apart from this, she will also be the first President from Odisha. She has spent almost two decades in politics and social service.

NDA Presidential Candidate, JP Nadda Announced after The Parliamentary Board Meeting

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced the candidate for the Presidential election on behalf of the NDA. The party has nominated Draupadi Murmu as its candidate. Earlier, a meeting of the BJP’s Parliamentary Board was held at the party headquarters to brainstorm the name of the Presidential candidate.

In this meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President JP Nadda, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, and other members of the Parliamentary Board were present in the meeting.

After the meeting, BJP President JP Nadda said that in today’s parliamentary board meeting, all of us came to the opinion that BJP and NDA, after talking to all their constituents, should declare our candidate for the President. Draupadi Murmu has been announced as the presidential candidate by the NDA.

He said that about 20 names were discussed in the meeting. We also tried to consult the opposition parties, but the matter did not work out. UPA has declared the candidate.

After this announcement, PM Modi tweeted and said, “Millions of people, especially those who have experienced poverty and faced hardships, derive great strength from the life of Draupadi Murmu. His understanding and compassionate nature of policy matters will greatly benefit our country.

Sources said that Draupadi Murmu may file her nomination on June 25. BJP has asked all its union ministers to stay in Delhi on June 24 and 25.

Former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha has been fielded as a joint candidate by the opposition parties for the presidential election. The term of the current President Ram Nath Kovind ends on July 24. After the announcement of Sinha’s name as the opposition candidate, voting for the next President’s election is now being held on July 18. The process of filling out nomination papers for the Presidential election is underway. June 29 is the last date for filing nominations.

It is worth noting that the BJP-led NDA is in a strong position on the basis of numbers in the presidential election and if it gets the support of parties like BJD or the ruling YSR Congress in Andhra Pradesh, then its victory will be certain.

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