‘Becoming Prez won’t be a personal feat’

Jaipur: NDA’s candidate Draupadi Murmu on Wednesday said it is an honour for all tribal people that a daughter from the community has been fielded in the presidential polls for the first time after Independence. She said that the deprived, tribals and the exploited can see themselves in her.

NDA’s candidate Draupadi Murmu arrived in Jaipur on Wednesday to seek support from BJP MLAs and MPs and others for the July 18 Presidential polls.

Addressing BJP MPs and MLAs from Rajasthan, Murmu said, “I never thought of becoming the president but under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the NDA made me a medium and worked to bring the people of the last villages into the mainstream.”

She said, “The deprived, tribals and the exploited can see themselves in me. There is no difference between us. There is no disparity. We are hopeful, progressive and confident in building a new India.”

Murmu said making a daughter of tribal society as the candidate for the president’s post for the first time after Independence is a “living example of respect for all tribal brothers and sisters of the country”.

She said reaching the post of president will not be her personal achievement.