Target UPSC 2023: Who is Draupadi Murmu, India’s 15th President!

Target UPSC 2023: Who is Draupadi Murmu, India’s 15th President!

Highlights

She is the first governor of Jharkhand to complete the five year term, and the first person, man or woman, belonging to a scheduled tribe, to be nominated to the post of President of India.

Personal Life

Draupadi Murmu was born on June 20, 1958, in Baidaposi village of Mayurbhanj district in Odisha, to Biranchi Narayan Tudu. Both her father and grandfather were village heads under the Panchayati Raj system. Draupadi Murmu married Shyam Charan Murmu. The couple had two sons, both of whom died, and a daughter.

Politics

She was elected as the councillor of the Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat in 1997.

She also served as the national vice-president of Bharathiya Janata Party Scheduled Tribes Morcha.

During the Bharatiya Janata Party and Biju Janata Dal coalition government in Odisha, She was the Minister of State with Independent Charge for Commerce and Transport from March 6, 2000 to August 6, 2002 and Fisheries and Animal Resources Development from August 6, 2002 to May 16, 2004.

She is former Odisha Minister and an MLA from Rairangpur Assembly constituency in the years 2000 and 2004.

She was conferred Nilkantha Award for best MLA by Odisha Legislative Assembly in 2007.

Governorship

She was the first woman Governor of Jharkhand. She was the first female tribal leader from Odisha to get appointed as a governor in an Indian state.