Draupadi Murmu President, Education, Biography, & Net Worth

Who is Draupadi Murmu?

Draupadi is an Indian leader who has been the country’s 15th and current President since 2022. She is the first tribal person to occupy the office, as well as the second woman after Pratibha Patil. Draupadi is also the country’s youngest President. She was born on June 20, 1958.

FULL NAME	Draupadi Murmu
DATE OF BIRTH	20 June 1958
AGE	65 (as of 2023)
ZODIAC SIGN	Gemini
RELIGION	Hindu
CASTE	Scheduled Tribe
HEIGHT (approx.)	163 cm
WEIGHT (approx.)	52 kg
PROFESSION	Politician
NET WORTH	₹4.8 LAKHS
MARITAL STATUS	Widow
HUSBAND/WIFE	Husband – Shyam Charan Murmu
GRADUATION	Hindu College of Delhi University, Delhi
HOMETOWN	Mayurbhanj, Odisha
HOBBY	Reading and Knitting

Brief Information on Draupadi Murmu

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Table of Content:

Draupadi Murmu Biography
Draupadi Family
Draupadi Marriage
Draupadi Murmu Education
Draupadi Career
Draupadi Murmu Achievements
Summary

Draupadi Murmu Biography

Draupadi was born on June 20, 1958, in Odisha the village of Uparbeda, Mayurbhanj district. She belongs to the Santali tribal family. Draupadi Murmu age is 65 years old now. Her zodiac sign is Gemini. She is the current youngest president of India.

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Draupadi Murmu net worth is ₹4.8 LAKHS. Draupadi Murmu contact number is +91 651 2283469. Her hobbies are reading and knitting. She is a down-to-earth and humble, soft-spoken woman who rose to political prominence through her humility and hard effort.

Draupadi Family

Draupadi was born in Odisha to Biranchi Narayan Tudu and a Santali tribal household. Draupadi Murmu mother name is not known. Her father worked on the estate. Her father and grandfather were both Panchayati Raj system village leaders. Bhagat Tudu and Sarani Tudu were her two siblings.

Draupadi Marriage

Draupadi Murmu husband’s name was Shyam Charan Murmu. He was a financier who died of cardiac arrest in 2014. The couple had three kids: two boys and a daughter. Her two boys, Laxman Murmu, who was only 25 years old at the time, died in a car accident in 2009, and Sipun Murmu, her second son, perished in a car accident a few years later in 2012. Draupadi has a daughter, Itishree, who works at UCO bank. She married rugby player Ganesh Hembram in 2015. Draupadi is known to have a granddaughter from her daughter’s side.

Draupadi Murmu Education

Draupadi received her primary schooling at the local primary school in Uparbeda. She later went to Bhubaneswar for higher education when she was only five years old. Murmu then completed her secondary education at Girl’s High School Unit-2 and received a B.A. from Rama Devi Women’s College.

Draupadi Murmu qualification is a graduate.

Draupadi Career

Teaching Career

Before joining state politics, Draupadi worked as a schoolteacher. In 1994, she was an assistant lecturer at the Shri Aurobindo Integral Education and Research Institute in Rairangpur, and in 1979, she was a Junior Assistant at the Government of Odisha’s Irrigation Department.

Early Political Career

In 1997, Draupadi joined BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party). She was elected as a Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat councillor. She was appointed the Chairperson of Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat in 2000. Draupadi was also elected the National Vice-President of the BJP Scheduled Tribes Morcha.

Draupadi started serving as Minister of State with Independent Charge of Commerce and Transportation from March 6, 2000, till August 6, 2000. From August 6, 2002, to May 16, 2004, she was the Minister of Fisheries and Animal Resources Development. She was also appointed former Odisha Minister in 2000. In 2004, she was also the Rairangpur Assembly Constituency MLA. Draupadi was chosen chairperson of Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat, and she later became MLA from the same Rairangpur in 2009.

Governor of Jharkhand

Draupadi Murmu president took over as Governor of Jharkhand on May 9, 2015, making her the state’s first female governor. She was also the first Orissa tribal leader to be chosen as governor of an Indian state. Her six-year tenure as Governor began in May 2015 and will end in July 2021.

Draupadi, the governor of Jharkhand at the time, refused to grant assent to a bill approved by the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly that sought to amend the Chota Nagpur Tenancy Act 1908 and the Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act 1949. The bill would have given the rights to tribals to make commercial use of their land while ensuring that the ownership of the land does not change. Draupadi, on the other hand, demanded an explanation from the Raghuvar Das-led BJP administration about the changes it would bring to tribals’ well-being.

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Presidential Candidate 2022

Draupadi was nominated by the BJP in June 2022 as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate for President of India in the following month’s poll. Yashwant Sinha was chosen as the opposition group’s presidential candidate. She won the 2022 Presidential election with a clear plurality, defeating opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha to become India’s 15th President on July 21, 2022.

Draupadi Presidency Oath

Draupadi was sworn in as the 15th President of India on July 26, 2022, by the 48th Chief Justice of India, N. V. Ramana, in the company of former Presidents, Vice Presidents, Prime Ministers, and other delegates. She is the youngest and first person chosen president of India since its independence in 1947. Draupadi is only the second woman to serve as President of India, following Pratibha Patil. She addressed the country for the first time as President of India on the eve of Independence Day, 14 August 2022. On the 75th anniversary of the country’s independence, she welcomed citizens.

In September 2022, she started a government programme called ‘Pradhanmantri TB mukht Bharat,’ which aims to eradicate tuberculosis in India. She was the first Indian President to open ‘Mysuru Dasara,’ a 10-day state festival in Karnataka. Murmu made extensive trips to the country’s northeastern states, including Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Sikkim, in the early months, and participated in ceremonies for various development projects.

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Draupadi Murmu Achievements

Odisha Legislative Assembly awarded Draupadi the Nilkantha Award for the finest MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) in 2007.

Summary:

Draupadi was born on the 20th of June, 1958. She is 65 years old now. Rama Devi Women’s College in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, awarded her a bachelor’s degree. She is both the first tribal individual and the second woman to hold the position. Draupadi is the country’s youngest President.