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Indian lawmakers are voting for president, and the winner may be a tribal woman
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Lawmakers began voting Monday to choose India's next president in an election expected to be won by a tribal woman from India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
The election of Draupadi Murmu is a formality as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP controls enough seats in federal and state legislatures to push its favored candidate. She is also likely to get the support of other regional parties in state assemblies.
Modi's party has projected Murmu as a leader representing poor tribal communities, which generally lacks health care and education facilities in remote villages. Murmu, 64, hails from the eastern of state Odisha and previously was governor of Jharkhand state.
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If elected, she will become the first tribal president and the second-ever female president of India.
Murmu's main opponent is a former BJP rebel, a candidate put up by a divided opposition. Yashwant Sinha, 84, was finance minister during the previous BJP government from 1998 to 2002. He quit the party following a divergence with Modi on economic issues in 2018.
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If elected, NDA candidate Draupadi Murmu would become the first tribal president and the second woman after Pratibha Patil to hold the post. Murmu, 64, the leader, became the first scheduled tribe to be nominated for the presidency of India. Sources say the BJP is also planning to celebrate NDA presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu's planned "historic victory" across India, especially in tribal
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