Draupadi Murmu

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  KOLKATA: After skipping the Vice Presidential election, the Trinamool Congress has decided not to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Vice President elect Jagdeep Dhankar on Thursday.  According to sources, TMC Rajya Sabha leader Derek O’Brien and Lok Sabha leader Sudeep Bandhopadhyay have been invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony that is scheduled for 11.45 am […]

NEW DELHI: Amid the furore over his Rashtrapatni remarks, Congress Lok Sabha MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Friday tendered an apology to President Draupadi Murmu saying it was a “slip of the tongue”. In a letter addressed to the President, he wrote: “I am writing to express my regret for having mistakenly used an incorrect […]

NEW DELHI: Union Minister Smriti Irani, in the presence of Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, said in the Lok Sabha that Congress not only insulted President Draupadi Murmu but also the great tribal legacy of this country and this insult was sanctioned by Sonia Gandhi. “Congress party is not able to digest that a poor […]

NEW DELHI: Droupadi Murmu was sworn-in as 15th President of India in the Central Hall of the Parliament by Chief Justice of India Justice NV Ramana on Monday. In her first address to both Houses of the Parliament, President Murmu said that her election to the President’s post proves that the poor in India can dream […]

From Rairangpur to Raisina hills, India’s 15th President Draupadi Murmu’s win in the Presidential elections typifies the victory of India’s ordinary people and the realisation of the ‘Indian Dream’. Born in a Santhal tribal family on June 20, 1958 in Uparabeda village of Mayurbhanj district in Odisha, Murmu is the first woman from the indigenous community […]

NEW DELHI: Heavy cross-voting in favour of Draupadi Murmu became the distinctive feature of this Presidential election as the Opposition’s candidate Yashwant Sinha drew a blank in three states Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland and Sikkim. What sets the tongues wagging is an indication that Bengal satrap Mamata Banerjee’s fortress might have been breached. The result of […]

DEHRADUN: After Draupadi Murmu won the Presidential elections, the Uttarakhand Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) organised a victory show in Kashipur, Udham Singh Nagar on Thursday. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami congratulated President-Elect Murmu. “Her win signifies a golden era in the history of democratic India. The election of a woman from such humble beginnings has […]

NEW DELHI: In what turned out to be a historic election, Draupadi Murmu was declared the winner of the presidential poll securing 64 per cent votes. She is the first tribal to occupy the highest Constitutional post in the country. Congratulating President-elect Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “India scripts history. At a time when […]