Know your next president: Draupadi Murmu

Draupadi murmur:-

Draupadi Murmu is a tribal leader from Odisha. She was born on June 20, 1958, in the Baidaposi village of Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district, Murmu belongs to Santhal ethnic group. Murmu was the State minister having independent charge of commerce and transport, fisheries and animal husbandry from 2000 to 2004.

Over the next decade, she held several leading roles within the BJP, including the State president of the ST Morcha and the BJP district president of Mayurbhan. In 2015, she became the first tribal Governor of Jharkhand and completed her five-year term.

On Tuesday she was chosen as the ruling NDA’s candidate for the forthcoming Presidential election. The decision was taken at the BJP’s parliamentary board meeting.

Former BJP stalwart Yashwant Sinha is the Opposition's pick. The two veterans will battle it out on July 18, when the electoral college will vote to elect the new President of India.  

The BJP has always stressed that it is far different from the upper caste, the upper-class party that it is perceived to be and the choice of Ms. Murmu, belonging to the Adivasi community, a particularly marginal group in India, to be its choice for the next President of India is a big move in that direction.

Who is Yashwant Sinha?

Yashwant Sinha, born 6 November 1937) was a prominent Indian Administrative Service officer. He joined politics in 1984.

His first electoral outing was in the 1984 Lok Sabha elections from the Hazaribagh district. This election resulted in a massive defeat. 

Finally 1988, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha and served as the Union Finance Minister in the Chandrashekhar government. In 1995 he joined the BJP and won the Bihar Assembly elections from Ranchi. 

He was later nominated to the Rajya Sabha. He won the Hazaribagh Lok Sabha constituency in 1998, 1999, and 2009. He served as the Cabinet Minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.




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