Officials stated on Wednesday that the Centre has provided Droupadi Murmu, the NDA's presidential nominee, with a Z+ security cover of CRPF commandos. Murmu's security was taken over by an armed team early Wednesday morning, according to a senior official. Murmu, a BJP leader from Odisha who served as governor of Jharkhand, was revealed as the party's candidate during a news conference Tuesday night following a meeting of the party's parliamentary board, which included Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top figures.
Draupadi Murmu is an Indian politician who is a BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) member. She is the official presidential candidate of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in India in 2022. From 2015 until 2021, she served as the ninth Governor of Jharkhand. She was born in the Indian state of Odisha. She is the first tribal woman to be nominated for President of India and the first governor of Jharkhand to finish her five-year tenure.
Who Is Droupadi Murmu
Murmu was elected as a Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat councillor in 1997. She was also the vice-president of the Scheduled Tribes Morcha of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
She was the Minister of State with independent charge for Commerce and Transport during the Bharatiya Janata Party and Biju Janata Dal coalition administration in Odisha from March 6, 2000, to August 6, 2002, and Fisheries and Animal Resources Development from August 6, 2002, to May 16, 2004. She served as an MLA from the Rairangpur Assembly constituency in Odisha between 2000 and 2004. In 2007, the Odisha Legislative Assembly awarded her the Nilkantha award for best MLA.
She was Jharkhand's first woman governor. She was Odisha's first female tribal leader to be elected governor of an Indian state. Murmu was chosen by the BJP as the National Democratic Alliance's nominee for President of India in June 2022, ahead of the election the following month.
"Droupadi Murmu Ji has devoted her life to serving society and empowering the poor, downtrodden as well as marginalised. She has rich administrative experience and had an outstanding gubernatorial tenure. I am confident she will be a great President of our nation,” PM Modi tweeted.
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She joined the BJP after working as an associate professor at Shri Aurobindo Integral Education and Research and as a junior assistant at the Odisha government's irrigation department. Murmu will be the first president born after the country's independence if she is elected. The BJP's selection of Murmu, a member of India's Adivasi community, a particularly marginalised group, as its candidate for the next President of India is a significant step in that direction.
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