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Scripting history, Droupadi Murmu took oath as the 15th President of India on Monday. Chief Justice of India N V Ramana administered the oath of office of the President to her in the Central Hall of Parliament.
Murmu, 64, is the first tribal and the second woman to hold the top constitutional post.
Earlier, outgoing President Ram Nath Kovind and President-elect Murmu arrived in parliament in a ceremonial procession ahead of the oath taking ceremony.
President Droupadi Murmu receives thunderous applause at the Central Hall of the Parliament.
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Murmu was escorted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice-President and Chairman of the Rajya Sabha M Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to the Central Hall. Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi too was present on the occasion.
Members of the Council of Ministers, Governors, chief ministers, heads of diplomatic missions, members of Parliament and principal civil and military officers of the government were also present at the swearing-in ceremony.
Ahead of the ceremony, Murmu visited the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat, and paid her respects to the Father of the Nation.
She then met outgoing President Ram Nath Kovind and first lady Savita Kovind.
After the swearing-in ceremony, the President will leave for Rashtrapati Bhavan, where an inter-services guard of honour will be given to her in the forecourt and courtesies will be extended to the outgoing President Kovind.
