President Ranil Wickremesinghe to congratulated the newly elected President of the Indian Republic Her Excellency Smt. Droupadi Murmu on her assumption of office as the President of the Republic of India, President Media Division said.
Last week, India's ruling party- NDA-backed candidate Droupadi Murmu was elected to the Office of President of the Indian Republic against Opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha by a huge margin.
Murmu, 64, is the first Adivasi and second woman to become the nation’s First Citizen and the Supreme Commander of India’s Armed Forces. Murmu was elected to two terms in the Odisha Assembly in 2000 and 2004, and served as a Minister from 2000 to 2004 in Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s BJD-BJP coalition government. She was sworn in as the first woman Governor of Jharkhand in 2015.
President Wickremesinghe's congratulatory letter as follows:
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