By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: Counting of votes of Presidential Elections2022 gets underway from 11am in Room 63 Parliament House, New Delhi on Thursday.
Odisha’s Rairangpur, the native place of NDA’s presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu, began preparations anticipating Murmu’s victory in the contest against Yashwant Sinha. Sweets have been made for distribution after the results are out. The people of her village have planned a victory procession and tribal dance.
Local BJP is planning celebrations after the results are announced. “We are preparing 20,000 laddus and have put up 100 banners congratulating Murmu, who has her house in our town,” local BJP leaders said.
Murmu has a political career spanning over 20 years. Hailing from Odisha, she was born in a Santal Tribal family on June 20, 1958, in village Uparbeda of district Mayurbhanj. Murmu was elected MLA twice from the Rairangpur constituency of Mayurbhanj (2000 and 2009) on the BJP’s ticket and later became Governor of Jharkhand.
