Biography of Droupadi Murmu | Family, education, previous offices and other details | 15th president of INDIA

 

        Biography of Droupadi  Murmu

Droupadi Murmu, an Indian politician born on June 20, 1958, has been the country's 15th president since July 25, 2022. She is a Bharatiya Janata Party supporter (BJP). She is the first member of an indigenous scheduled tribe to hold the office of President of India. She held a number of positions in the cabinet of the Government of Odisha between 2000 and 2004 before being elected president. She was the ninth Governor of Jharkhand from 2015 to 2021.

She worked as a teacher in Rairangpur till 1997 after serving as a clerk in the State Irrigation and Power Department from 1979 to 1983.

• ·       Personal life
• ·       Early career
• ·       Political career
• ·       Governor of Jharkhand
• ·       2022 presidential campaign
• ·       Political position

 

 

 

Personal Life

On June 20, 1958, Droupadi Murmu was born to a Santali family in Rairangpur, Odisha's Baidaposi neighbourhood. Puti Tudu was the name her family gave her. Her instructor at school changed her name to Droupadi. She has had multiple name changes, and in the past went by the names Durpadi and Dorpdi. Her father and grandparents served as the town council's established leaders. Murmu is a Rama Devi Women's College arts graduate.

She married a banker with whom she had two sons and a daughter. Between 2009 and 2015, she lost her husband, two boys, mother, and one brother. She subscribes to the BrahmaKumaris school of thought.

 

Early career

Murmu served as a junior assistant in the irrigation division of the Government of Odisha from 1979 to 1983. She later worked as a teacher at Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Centre, Rairangpur, where she instructed students in geography, math, and hindi.

 

Political career

In Rairangpur, Droupadi Murmu joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She was chosen to serve as a Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat councillor in 1997.

Between 2000 and 2009, she served two terms in the Odisha Legislative Assembly after winning the Rairangpur Assembly seat election in 2000.

She served as the Minister of State with Independent Charge for Commerce and Transportation under the BJP and BJD coalition administration in Odisha from March 6, 2000, to August 6, 2002, and for Fisheries and Animal Resources Development from August 6, 2002, to May 16, 2004.

As the alliance between the BJD and BJP had broken down, she lost the 2009 Lok Sabha election in the Mayurbhanj Lok Sabha constituency.

Governor of Jharkhand

On May 18, 2015, Murmu was sworn in as the first woman to serve as governor of Jharkhand. For the majority of her six-year term as governor, the BJP was in control of both the Jharkhand government and the Union government.

Former BJP politician and activist Ratan Tirkey claimed that Murmu had not gone far enough to ensure that the rights to self-governance provided to indigenous tribes were effectively carried out. The Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act of 1996, often known as PESA, and the Fifth Schedule both confer these privileges. According to Tirkey, "the governor never employed her powers to execute the Fifth Schedule provisions and Pesa in letter and spirit despite several demands."

Her six years of  tenure as Governor began in May 2015 and ended in July 2021

Pathalgadi movement

In 2016-2017, the Raghubar Das service was looking for alterations to the Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act, 1908, and the Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act, 1949. These two unique regulations had defended the privileges of ancestral networks on their property. As per the current regulations, land exchanges must be finished between ancestral networks. The new alterations gave the tribals the option to permit the public authority to utilize ancestral land and to take ancestral land on rent. The proposed bill revising the current regulation had been endorsed by the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. The bills were shipped off Murmu for endorsement in November 2016.

The ancestral individuals had firmly had a problem with the proposed regulation. During the Pathalgadi development, challenges the proposed revisions to the tenure demonstrations. In one episode, the dissent turned fierce and the tribals kidnapped the security detail of the BJP Member of Parliament Karia Munda. Police answered with a savage get serious about ancestral networks, that caused the demise of an ancestral man. Criminal arguments were documented against in excess of 200 individuals including the ancestral freedoms extremist Stan Swamy. Murmu was scrutinized for her delicate stand on police animosity against ancestral networks during the development. As per lady ancestral freedoms dissident Aloka Kujur she was supposed to talk up to the public authority on the side of the tribals however it didn't worked out, and on second thought she spoke to the Pathalgarhi fomentation pioneers to rest confidence in the constitution.

Murmu had gotten absolute of 192 reminders against the revisions in the bill. Then resistance pioneer Hemant Soren had said that the BJP government needed to gain ancestral land through the two correction Bills to support corporates. Resistance groups Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, the Indian National Congress, the Jharkhand VikasMorcha and others had set serious strain against the bill. On 24 May 2017, Murmu yielded and would not give consent to the bills and returned the bill to the state government alongside the reminders she had gotten. The bill was subsequently removed in August 2017.

Religion and land bill

In 2017, she supported the Freedom of Religion Bill, 2017, and the bill to change the Land Acquisition 2013 Act passed by the Jharkhand Assembly.

The new religion bill makes it an offense subject to a punishment of three years in jail, to constrain or draw an individual to change over their religion. On the off chance that the individual forced is an individual from a Scheduled Caste or clan, a minor, or female, the jail term increments to four years. Anyway, fines can be imposed. The bill likewise made it required for willful believers, to illuminate the Deputy Commissioner about their change, and to give all relevant info about the conditions.

The revisions in the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, involved changes in the pay term and prerequisites for social effects evaluation. As per the passed regulation, financial pay for government securing of ancestral land should be paid in something like a half year of procurement. The necessity for social effect evaluations was dropped for certain kinds of framework projects.

2022 presidential campaign

In June 2022, the BJPnamed Murmu as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA's) contender for President of India for the 2022 political race the next month. Yashwant Sinha, was selected as the possibility for President by the resistance parties. During her political race, Murmu visited different states looking for help for her candidature. A few resistance groups like BJD, YSRCP, JMM, BSP, SS, JD(S) among others had declared help for her candidature before polling. On 21 July 2022, Murmu got a reasonable larger part in the 2022 Presidential political decision overcoming normal resistance competitor Yashwant Sinha with 676,803 discretionary votes (64.03% of aggregate) in 21 of the 28 states (remembering for the association domain of Puducherry) to turn into the fifteenth President of India.

She was chosen as the President of India and accepted office on 25 July 2022. She made vow of office on the Central Hall of Parliament by the CJI, Mr. NV Ramana.

She will be the primary individual from India's native assigned ancestral networks to be chosen president. She is the most youthful and first individual brought into the world after India's autonomy in 1947 to have been chosen president. Murmu is just the second lady after Pratibha Patil to act as the President of India.

 

Political position

She adheres to the BJP party's position on Hindu nationalism (Hindutva), Hindi as India's official language, and the purported health advantages of cow urine. She backs the BJP's proposed 2020 Indian agriculture laws (commonly known as the farm laws). 

Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, is admired by Murmu. She has praised B. R. Ambedkar, Nehru, and Mahatma Gandhi for their work on the Indian Constitution.