New Delhi - In the concluded Indian Presidential election yesterday, July 25, 2022, Droupadi Murmu got elected as the 15^th President of India. Her elevation to the position of the country’s head of state is hailed as a historic moment. This is primarily because Murmu is India’s first tribal and the youngest woman President. Murmu’s thumping victory in the presidential election has been rapturously welcomed by all sections transcending the political spectrum.

Murmu contested the election as the candidate of the ruling BJP-led NDA primarily against the veteran political leader, Yashwant Sinha, who ran for the presidential election as the joint candidate of the Opposition parties in India. Murmu won the election by receiving 64.03 percent of the total votes polled. Apart from the parliamentarians and legislators of the NDA, many non-NDA parties such as YSRCP, BSP, SAD, Shiv Sena, and JMM including some prominent political opponents of the BJP-led NDA, expressed their support and voted for Murmu in the election.