Delhi (The Stellar News): On Thursday former Jharkhand Governor and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Droupadi Murmu was elected as 15th President of India, the first tribal woman to be elected to the position and the youngest as well. She was declared elected after four rounds of voting, although she had crossed the halfway mark after the third round of counting , getting an unassailable lead over her rival candidate Yashwant Sinha who conceded the election thereafter.
After four rounds of polling Murmu received 2,824votes of 6,76,803 value while Sinha received 1,877 votes of 3,80,177 value. She received 64.03% of total votes polled, much more than what was openly declared in her support and pointing to the fact that there had been a lot of cross-voting in Murmu’s favour from the opposition ranks.
Congratulatory messages poured out has her victory was assured, with Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda also going in person to greet Murmu. Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla said, “Ms. Murmu has always given voice to the hopes and aspirations of the people, understood their grievances and resolved them” PM Modi congratulated her and twitted, “Smt. Drouapdi Murmu Ji has been an outstanding MLA and Minister. She had an excellent tenure as Jharkhand governor. I am certain she will be an outstanding President who will lead from the front and strengthen India’s development journey”. Assam CM Hemant Biswa Sarma along with other political leaders also congratulated her from their twitter accounts.
Report: Deepanjot Kaur
