New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (July 22, 2022) congratulated Droupadi Murmu for changing into the fifteenth President of India and hoped for additional improvement of the Russian-Indian political dialogue and productive cooperation in numerous areas underneath her management.
“We connect a lot significance to the relations of particular privileged strategic partnership with India. I hope your actions as the pinnacle of state will promote the additional improvement of the Russian-Indian political dialogue and productive cooperation in numerous areas for the advantage of our pleasant nations and within the pursuits of stronger worldwide stability and safety,” an official assertion from the Indian Embassy in Russia stated.
#Russia’n President Vladimir #Putin congratulated Draupadi Murmu on her election to the publish of President of the Republic of #India https://t.co/Py8ZGE7TTV pic.twitter.com/fISXGAmNcr
— Russia in India (@RusEmbIndia) July 23, 2022
Droupadi Murmu acquired 2,824 votes with a price of 6,76,803 and defeated opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha, who bought 1,877 votes with a price of three,80,177.
She would be the first member of the tribal group, and the second girl, to carry the highest constitutional publish within the nation.
Born in a poor tribal household in a village of Mayurbhanj, a backward district in Odisha, Murmu was the primary girl governor of Jharkhand and served within the publish from 2015 to 2021.
She can be sworn in as India’s fifteenth President on July 25 within the Central Corridor of Parliament. Chief Justice of India NV Ramana will administer her the oath of workplace.
(With company inputs)