BHUBANESWAR: Celebrations reached its peak on Monday, individuals got here out within the streets and danced as Droupadi Murmu’s took over as fifteenth President of India in New Delhi on Monday.
From Droupadi’s native village Uparbeda, her late husband Shyam Charan Murmu’s village Pahadpur, her township Rairangpur, state capital Bhubaneswar and lots of different components of the state witnessed individuals dancing on the streets. Many had been wearing tribal apparel. Individuals burst crackers and likewise performed colors combining the flavours of Diwali and Holi on the historic event when for the primary time any Odisha native occupied the nation’s highest workplace.
In her first speech as President, Droupadi greeted the nation ‘with Juhar,’ the best way individuals in Odisha villages usually greet one another, with fingers folded. This evoked an emotional response from many individuals. “With an Odisha native in Rashtrapati Bhawan, it’s our privilege that for the primary time the President of Inia in her victory speech has greeted the nation with a juhar,” mentioned Girija Shankar Acharya, a retired schoolteacher in Bargarh district.
Droupadi recalling her work as a trainer at Aurobindo Integral Training Centre in Rairangpur has left the varsity elated. “Lengthy after she left the instate manner again in 1997, madam stays related with us. We had been all teary eyed when she talked about her affiliation with us,” mentioned Dilip Giri, caretaker of the institute who labored with Droupadi in these days.
Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, Odisha MPs, MLAs from the President’s native Mayurbhanj district and lots of of her family members, together with daughter Itishree, son-in-law Ganesh Hembram, attended the swearing-in. Non secular chief Srimad Baba Balia, champion of widows’ proper to life with dignity, was additionally amongst dignitaries from Odisha who attended the swearing-in of Droupadi Murmu.
Baba Balia, a Padma Shri awardee and native of Jagatsinghpur, mentioned he feels privileged. “Droupadi Murmu is a widow for whose dignity we’ve got been pleading earlier than the society. She additionally has misplaced her sons however by no means the zeal to work for the individuals. She is an educationist who began her works on the grassroots and rose to this degree due to her honesty and dedication,” Balia had mentioned earlier than leaving for Delhi.
From Droupadi’s native village Uparbeda, her late husband Shyam Charan Murmu’s village Pahadpur, her township Rairangpur, state capital Bhubaneswar and lots of different components of the state witnessed individuals dancing on the streets. Many had been wearing tribal apparel. Individuals burst crackers and likewise performed colors combining the flavours of Diwali and Holi on the historic event when for the primary time any Odisha native occupied the nation’s highest workplace.
In her first speech as President, Droupadi greeted the nation ‘with Juhar,’ the best way individuals in Odisha villages usually greet one another, with fingers folded. This evoked an emotional response from many individuals. “With an Odisha native in Rashtrapati Bhawan, it’s our privilege that for the primary time the President of Inia in her victory speech has greeted the nation with a juhar,” mentioned Girija Shankar Acharya, a retired schoolteacher in Bargarh district.
Droupadi recalling her work as a trainer at Aurobindo Integral Training Centre in Rairangpur has left the varsity elated. “Lengthy after she left the instate manner again in 1997, madam stays related with us. We had been all teary eyed when she talked about her affiliation with us,” mentioned Dilip Giri, caretaker of the institute who labored with Droupadi in these days.
Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, Odisha MPs, MLAs from the President’s native Mayurbhanj district and lots of of her family members, together with daughter Itishree, son-in-law Ganesh Hembram, attended the swearing-in. Non secular chief Srimad Baba Balia, champion of widows’ proper to life with dignity, was additionally amongst dignitaries from Odisha who attended the swearing-in of Droupadi Murmu.
Baba Balia, a Padma Shri awardee and native of Jagatsinghpur, mentioned he feels privileged. “Droupadi Murmu is a widow for whose dignity we’ve got been pleading earlier than the society. She additionally has misplaced her sons however by no means the zeal to work for the individuals. She is an educationist who began her works on the grassroots and rose to this degree due to her honesty and dedication,” Balia had mentioned earlier than leaving for Delhi.