PM Modi Accompanies NDA’s Presidential Candidate While Filing Nominations

Murumu 64, will also be the youngest president ever, second only to N Sanjeeva Reddy, who was a few days elder than her when he became the President.

New Delhi: Droupadi Murmu, the BJP-led NDA’s choice for president, today filed her nomination for the post, with a host of ruling party and alliance leaders on hand to endorse her application.

Ms. Murmu, 64, was accompanied by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior leaders of the ruling party, including BJP President JP Nadda.

PM Modi was her first proposer. The BJP had prepared four sets of nominations for Murmu’s candidature.

YSR Congress’ V Vijaysai Reddy and BJD leader Sasmit Patra, who are not part of the alliance, were also in Parliament to back her nomination.

AIADMK leader O Paneerselvam and M Thambidurai, and JD-U’s Rajiv Ranjan Singh also reached Parliament early.

Every set of nominations must have 50 proposers and 50 seconders within elected representatives.

If elected, Ms. Murmu will be India’s first woman tribal leader and the second woman in the post.

Murumu 64, will also be the youngest president ever, second only to N Sanjeeva Reddy, who was a few days elder than her when he became the President.

She held the post of governor of Jharkhand from 2015 to 2021.

After Gopalkrishna Gandhi (Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi), Sharad Pawar(NCP supremo), and Farook Abdullah (Former J&K CM) turned down the offer the Opposition parties named former Union minister Yashwant Sinha as a candidate to contest the presidential polls.

The elections are scheduled to be held on July 18 and the votes will be counted on July 21. The last date for filing nominations is June 29.

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