Draupadi Murmu has been elected as the 15th President of the country. She defeated her opponent Yashwant Sinha and won with more than 50% votes. She will take oath as the President of India on July 25, 2022.
On July 18, all elected MLAs and MPs casted their votes for the country's next president. The total turnout at the Parliament House was 98.91 percent.
Droupadi Murmu Is The First Tribal President
Murmu will be the first tribal president of India. She was born in Baidaposi village of Mayurbhanj district and belongs to the Santhal community.
She has served as the Governor of Jharkhand from 2015 to 2021 and became the first governor to complete the five-year term in the state. Murmu will the second woman president of the country.
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Congratulatory Tweets Pour In
Heartiest congratulations and best wishes to Smt. Droupadi Murmu on being elected as the 15th President of India.
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) July 21, 2022
India scripts history. At a time when 1.3 billion Indians are marking Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, a daughter of India hailing from a tribal community born in a remote part of eastern India has been elected our President!
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 21, 2022
Congratulations to Smt. Droupadi Murmu Ji on this feat.
राष्ट्रपति चुनाव में प्रभावी जीत दर्ज करने के लिए श्रीमती द्रौपदी मुर्मू जी को बधाई। वे गाँव, गरीब, वंचितों के साथ-साथ झुग्गी-झोपड़ियों में भी लोक कल्याण के लिए सक्रिय रहीं हैं।आज वे उनके बीच से निकल कर सर्वोच्च संवैधानिक पद तक पहुँची हैं।यह भारतीय लोकतंत्र की ताक़त का प्रमाण है।
— Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) July 21, 2022
Yashwant Sinha: Oppon's Presidential Candidate
Yashwant Sinha, the joint opposition candidate for the president post, was backed by around 34 opposition parties, including the Congress, TMC, and DMK, among others.
Yashwant Sinha joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1960. He began his political career with the Janata Party. He then served as a BJP member up until 2018. He resigned from the Bhartiya Janta party in 2018 after several disagreements with the Modi government. He joined the TMC in 2021, where he was appointed as the party's national vice president. He resigned from TMC in June 2022.
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The current president of India, Ram Nath Kovind will end his tenure on 24th July 2022. The new president will take oath on July 25, 2022. In 2017, Ram Nath Kovind won the presidential elections with 7.02 Lakh votes.
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