Droupadi Murmu: 15th President of India.

Droupadi Murmu ( The first-ever person from the Tribal community to be elected as the President of India.)

• She is an Indian politician who is elected as the 15th President of India.
• She is a member of the BJP.

• She is the first-ever Scheduled Tribe person to be elected as the President of India.
• Murmu is the first person from Odisha and only the second woman after Pratibha Patil to occupy this post.
• She is the youngest and first individual to have been born after India’s independence in 1947, elected to this post.
• Prior to her presidency she served as the ninth Governor of Jharkhand between 2015 and 2021, and held various portfolios in the cabinet of the Government of Odisha between 2000 to 2004.
• Before entering politics, she worked as a junior assistant in the State Irrigation and Power Department from 1979 to 1983, and then as a teacher at Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Centre at Rairangpur till 1997.