Droupadi Murmu visits Patna, seeks support for Presidential election

Patna, July 5, 2022: NDA Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu visited Patna on Tuesday and met the leaders of NDA allies seeking support for the July 18 Presidential election.

She arrived at the Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport at 11.13 am in a special aircraft, where she was accorded a rousing welcome by the BJP leaders.

Union minister Pashupati  Kumar Paras, Bihar minister Jivesh Mishra, union minister of state for home Nityanand Rai and other leaders welcomed her at the airport. Digha MLA Sanjeev Kumar Chaurasia was also present there.

Later, she garlanded the statue of Birsa Munda situated at the Old Secretariat. Leaders of the BJP's Mahila Morcha welcomed her in front of the BJP state office. Tribal women gathered there also welcomed her in a grand manner. Several leaders and workers of BJP's Scheduled Castes and Tribes Morcha and Kisan Morcha did not lag behind to welcome her.

NDA's presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu also held a meeting with MLAs and MPs in Patna. He appealed to everyone to support her in the Presidential election. Chief minister Nitish Kumar welcomed her. During this slogans of Murmu-Nitish Zindabad were raised.

In the afternoon she attended the program organised at Hotel Maurya where she appealed to the NDA constituents to support her in the elections. She held a meeting with Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. In the programme, Nitish Kumar felicitated her.

 Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui