From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: Elaborate arrangements are being made for the newly elected 15th President of India Droupadi Murmu to be sworn in by Chief Justice of India N V Ramana in the Central Hall of Parliament on Monday morning.
At the age of 64 years, she will be the youngest to occupy the top position in the country besides being the first tribal woman. She is also the first person born in the independent India becoming the President since she was born on June 20, 1958 at Mayurbhanj Odisha.
The 163-cm (5’4″) tall Murmu, a soft-spoken tribal leader from Odisha and former Jharkhand governor, was declared elected on Thursday as the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance candidate, defeating the Opposition’s joint candidate Yashwant Sinha, a former minister in Atal Behari Vajpayee government, by a large margin.
Present President Ram Nath Kovind, whose 5-year term ends on Sunday, will be packing his bags and move to his new residence that day to be a neighbour of Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Prime Minister Modi is slated to drop him at his new house at No 12, Janpath, that was occupied by late Union Minister Ramvilas Paswan for almost three decades.
