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Droupadi Murmu takes oath as India's first tribal President

Droupadi Murmu was sworn in as India's 15th President on July 25, 2022, making her the first person from one of the country's marginalised tribal communities to serve as head of state. The former school teacher and state governor was elected to the largely ceremonial position last week with 64 percent of the vote by members of India's Parliament and state assemblies. Droupadi Murmu, who hails from the Santhal tribe and was born in eastern Odisha state, paid her respects before her inauguration at a memorial dedicated to India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi. "I started my life journey from a small tribal village," Murmu, 64, said after taking the oath of office in Parliament. "From the background I come from, it was like a dream for me to even get elementary education," she added. "But despite many obstacles, my resolve remained strong and I became the first daughter from my village to go to college." Her win was considered a certainty because of the strength of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies in the Parliament and state assemblies. "Her assuming the Presidency is a watershed moment for India especially for the poor, marginalised and downtrodden," Modi said on Twitter after Murmu's address. Droupadi Murmu is the country's second woman president after Pratibha Patil, who held the position for five years from 2007. She succeeds Ram Nath Kovind, the second President from the Dalit community, the bottom of the Hindu caste system.

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