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Who is the first Indian President to be born in independent India?

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Published: August 04, 2022 06:12:18

Amazon Quiz (August 5, 2022): Who is the first Indian President to be born in independent India?

Droupadi Murmu

Ram Nath Kovind

Pranab Mukherjee

Pratibha Patil

Answer: Droupadi Murmu

Droupadi Murmu is the 15th and current President of India since July 25, 2022. She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She is the first person belonging to the tribal community and also the second woman after Pratibha Patil to hold the President’s office.

Prior to her presidency she served as the ninth Governor of Jharkhand between 2015 and 2021, and held various portfolios in the cabinet of Government of Odisha between 2000 to 2004.

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Before entering politics, she worked as a clerk in the State Irrigation and Power Department from 1979 to 1983, and then as a teacher in Rairangpur until 1997.

Murmu was born on June 20, 1958 to a Santali family in Uparbeda village in the Baidaposi area of Rairangpur, Odisha. Her father Biranchi Narayan Tudu was a farmer. Her father and grandfather were traditional heads (designated Sarpanch) of the village council (Gram Panchayat).

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Murmu studied elementary education at the local primary school in Uparbeda. At age five, she moved to Bhubaneswar for higher studies. She completed secondary education from Girl’s High School Unit-2, and graduated in B.A. from Rama Devi Women’s College.

She married Shyam Charan Murmu, a banker, in 1980 with whom she had two sons and a daughter. Her husband, two sons, mother, and a brother all died in a span of 7 years, from 2009 to 2015. She is a follower of the Brahma Kumaris spiritual movement.

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