NDA’s candidate for Presidential election Draupadi Murmu will file her nomination papers on Friday.
Amaravati:
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday extended his support to NDA’s presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu, who would be the first tribal woman to hold the post if she wins.
According to an official statement from the state government, CM Jagan believes that this is in line with the always emphasis on representation of SC, ST, BC and minority communities.
In the last three years, CM Jagan has attached great importance to the upliftment of these communities and has also ensured that they are well represented in the cabinet, which has the lion’s share of 70 per cent.
However, the CM will not be able to attend the filing of nomination by Draupadi Murmu due to the previously scheduled cabinet meeting. Instead, Rajya Sabha member and party parliamentary affairs leader Vijayasai Reddy and Lok Sabha member Midhun Reddy should be in attendance.
Earlier in the day, Ms Murmu reached Delhi and held a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda. Presidential elections will be held on 18 July.
Draupadi Murmu will file her nomination papers on Friday.
She is the first presidential candidate from Odisha from a major political party or coalition. She continued to break barriers and was the first woman governor of Jharkhand. She served as the Governor of Jharkhand from 2015 to 2021.
Coming from a poor tribal family of Mayurbhanj, a backward district of Odisha, Draupadi Murmu completed her studies despite challenging circumstances. He taught at Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Centre, Rairangpur.
He started his political career as the Vice President of Rairangpur NAC. Draupadi Murmu was a member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly from Rairangpur between 2000 and 2004. As a minister, he held the portfolios of Transport and Commerce, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries. He again served as an MLA in the Odisha Legislative Assembly from 2004 to 2009.
In 2007, the Odisha Legislative Assembly honored him with the ‘Neelkanth Award’ for the best MLA. He served as a junior assistant in the Department of Irrigation and Power between 1979 and 1983. She has held several organizational positions in the BJP and was the Vice President of the State ST Morcha in 1997.
Draupadi Murmu was a national executive member of the BJP’s ST Morcha from 2013 to 2015 and served as the BJP district chief of Mayurbhanj (West) in 2010 and 2013. Between 2006 and 2009, she was the chief of the ST Morcha of the BJP in Odisha. She was a member of the National Executive of BJP ST Morcha from 2002 to 2009.
Voting for the next President of India will begin on July 18 while the counting of votes will take place on July 21.
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