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Oath - Draupadi Murmu
July 27 , 2022
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- Draupadi Murmu was sworn in as India’s 15th President at the Central Hall of Parliament in Delhi.
- She was sworn in by Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana.
- She was given a 21-gun salute after which she signed the oath register.
- The new commander-in-chief of the armed forces inspected a tri-services guard of honour in the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
- She created history by being the first tribal President and the second woman to occupy the country’s highest constitutional post.
- She is India’s youngest President at 64 and the first to be born after Independence.
- She was born to a Santali family on June 20, 1958, in Rairangpur, Mayurbhanj district, Odisha.
- Her name given by her family was Puti Tudu.
- She was renamed by her school teacher to Draupadi.
- Murmu was sworn in as the Governor of Jharkhand in 2015.
- Thus, she became the first woman governor to that state.
- She was the first female tribal leader from Odisha to be appointed as a Governor of the Indian State.
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