New Delhi: India has got its first tribal President as Droupadi Murmu, the NDA’s choice, scooped up over 50 per cent of the total vote value after three rounds of counting, Defeats Yashwant Sinha.
Murmu was the former Governor of Jharkhand. Apart from this, Murmu also created history by becoming the first President of Odisha of a major political party or alliance. She was also the first woman governor of Jharkhand.
She served as Jharkhand Governor from 2015 to 2021. Murmu comes from a poor tribal family in the village of Mayurbhanj, a backward district in Odisha
