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Hyderabad: The BJP activists staged demonstrations across the State on Thursday to protest against the remarks made by the Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary against the President Droupadi Murmu. Holding placards denouncing the remarks of the Congress MP, irate activists raised slogans against him and burnt his effigy. The demonstrations were organized following a call […]
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New Delhi: Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, in the soup for the remark which he claimed was a “slip of tongue”, on Thursday said he will apologise to President Droupadi Murmu but not to “these pakhandis” (hypocrites). He also accused the BJP of making a “mountain out of a molehill” over the issue. Chowdhury said […]
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Colombo: Sri Lanka’s newly-appointed President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday congratulated India’s new President Droupadi Murmu, recalling the close ties between the two nations and underlining that her leadership offers “fresh impetus” to the joint endeavours to nurture and strengthen the cordial ties it enjoys. Murmu, 64, took over as India’s 15th president on Monday, the […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday described Droupadi Murmu taking over as India’s President as a “watershed moment” for the country, especially for the poor, marginalised and downtrodden. The entire nation watched with pride as she took oath, PM Modi said, wishing her the best for a fruitful tenure. “The entire nation watched […]
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New Delhi: Droupadi Murmu on Monday took oath as the 15th President of India. Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana administered the oath of office to Murmu in the Central Hall of Parliament. Outgoing President Ram Nath Kovind and Murmu arrived in Parliament in a ceremonial procession shortly before the swearing in commenced. She is scheduled […]
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Mumbai/Pune/Bhubaneswar: President-designate of India Droupadi S. Murmu is not new to records and several are already to her credit in a dizzying political career spanning barely a quarter century, zooming from a Municipal Councillor in 1997 to the country’s First Citizen in 2022, for which she will take the oath on Monday (July 25). With this, […]
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New Delhi: NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu secured victory in the Presidential poll on Thursday after the third round of counting as out of the 3,219 valid votes counted so far, she bagged 2,161 while Opposition’s nominee Yashwant Sinha got 1,058. “I heartily congratulate Droupadi Murmu on her victory in the Presidential Election 2022. I hope […]
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Hyderabad: Polling for the Presidential election concluded at the Telangana State Legislative Assembly here on Monday. The polling, which commenced at 10 am, concluded at 5 pm at the polling station arranged in the Assembly committee hall. The TRS and the Congress party are supporting the Opposition parties’ candidate Yashwant Sinha while the BJP and […]
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Mumbai: Thirteen of the 18 Lok Sabha MPs of the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra on Monday physically attended a key meeting on the presidential elections and a majority of them suggested supporting the BJP-led NDA’s candidate Droupadi Murmu, party leader Gajanan Kiritkar said. However, party MP and chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut claimed of the 18 […]
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Kolkata: Ahead of the presidential election, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Droupadi Murmu’s chances of winning the election are better because of developments in Maharashtra. “Now we know Droupadi Murmu’s chances are better because of developments in Maharashtra. We’ll go by what opposition parties say,” […]
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New Delhi: TRS working president and Telangana IT Minister K T Rama Rao (KTR) on Monday described as “tokenism” the NDA’s decision to field a tribal candidate for the presidential election, and said the Modi government has done nothing for the uplift of the community in the last eight years. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) […]
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New Delhi: Is this the end game for Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu in politics with his term as Rajya Sabha Chairman coming to an end in August? A seasoned politician and a veteran BJP leader, Naidu apparently is unhappy with the way he was ‘dumped’ by the saffron party and denied an opportunity to get […]
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Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday announced support to NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu before the latter filed the nomination on the day. Jagan believes that supporting tribal woman to become first citizen of the country falls in line with the emphasis he has always given to the representation of […]
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New Delhi: The BJP-led NDA’s nominee Droupadi Murmu on Friday filed her nomination papers for the July 18 presidential election, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi handing over the set of papers to Returning Officer P C Mody. Murmu was also accompanied by union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and Piyush Goyal, BJP president […]
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New Delhi: Droupadi Murmu, the first woman tribal leader to file her nomination for the top constitutional post of the country, is a seasoned politician from Odisha coupled with an extensive background in the field of academics reflects that she will uplift the tribal sections of the country. Droupadi Murmu, who was declared BJP-led NDA’s […]
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New Delhi: The presidential candidate nominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA, Droupadi Murmu is scheduled to file her nomination papers on Friday. The sources also informed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be proposing her name for the nomination on June 24, which will be seconded by the party’s national president JP Nadda. The […]
