Guwahati: President-elect Droupadi Murmu will take the oath of office as India’s 15th president on Monday (July 25). The ceremony will start at 10:15 in Parliament’s Central Hall.
According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the ceremony will be attended by Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla, members of the Council of Ministers, State Governors, Chief Ministers, Heads of Diplomatic Missions, Members of Parliament, and senior civil and military officials of the Government of India.
President Ram Nath Kovind and President-elect Murmu will enter the Central Hall in a formal procession. The President-elect will take the oath of office in front of the Chief Justice of India. This will be followed by a 21-gun salute.
The President will then deliver an address. After the ceremony, the President will depart for Rashtrapati Bhavan, where she will receive an Inter-Services Guard of Honour in the Forecourt and be accorded courtesy by the departing President.
On July 21, Murmu, the presidential candidate of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance was sworn in as the nation’s fifteenth leader. The term of President Kovind expires on Sunday, July 24.
Murmu will hold the nation’s top constitutional position for the second time; she is the second woman and the first from the tribal community to do so.