Draupadi Murmu

NEW DELHI: A confident BJP is gearing up to celebrate the victory of Droupadi Murmu in the presidential poll. Prime Minister Narendra Modi may visit the house of Murmu in Delhi to congratulate the newly elected president after the results are announced officially. PM Modi’s cabinet is expected to accompany him to Murmu’s House. BJP […]

KOLKATA: Leaving nothing to a chance, the Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party shifted its 69 MLAs to a private hotel ahead of the Presidential elections on Monday. While sources in the state BJP said that it’s been done mainly to make the MLAs understand the voting procedure, there has been buzz that there […]

NEW DELHI: National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Draupadi Murmu is poised to become the 15th President of India, experts said as the voting concluded on Monday evening. Murmu, the former Governor of Jharkhand, will become the first tribal President of India if she manages to beat Opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha, which is, in all likelihood, […]

NEW DELHI: Even as polling for the Presidential election is underway, several Congress MLAs on Monday voted for NDA nominee Draupadi Murmu. Congress MLAs in Odisha, Jharkhand and several other states voted for Murmu, instead of opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha. Odisha Congress MLA Mohammad Moquim also voted for Murmu. He later said, “I am a […]

NEW DELHI: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) will break ranks with the opposition as they pledged their support to NDA candidate Draupadi Murmu in the Presidential elections. Announcing the decision, JMM president Shibu Soren said, “For the first time since independence there is a chance that a tribal woman has a chance to become the President […]

NEW DELHI: Veteran politician Yashwant Sinha on Monday asserted that the election for the President of India is not about two people but about two ideologies, as filed his nomination papers for the Presidential election in New Delhi. The former Bharatiya Janata Party leader was accompanied by the top leaders from the opposition including Congress’ […]

NEW DELHI: The BJP-led NDA government’s Presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu landed at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi today. She went on to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah later in the day. At the airport, Murmu was received by Union minister of tourism G Kishan Reddy, Union minister of […]

NEW DELHI: Draupadi Murmu, who has been chosen as the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), has many firsts to her name. Once confirmed in the July 18 election, she will become the first tribal woman to hold the top constitutional office of India. In 2015, she became the first woman to hold […]