[5] Droupadi Murmu was born to a Santali family on 20 June 1958, in Uparbeda village[6] in the Baidaposi area of Rairangpur, Odisha.

She was renamed by her school teacher to Droupadi, and her name was changed several times to those including Durpadi and Dorpdi in the past.

From 1994 to 1997, she then worked as a teacher at the school Sri Aurobindo Integral Education and Research Centre in Rairangpur, where she taught Hindi, Odia, mathematics, and geography.

[10] In 1997, Droupadi Murmu was elected as the councillor of the Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat[20] as an independent candidate from a reserved seat for women.

[28] In one incident, the protest turned violent and the tribals abducted the security detail of the BJP Member of Parliament Karia Munda.

[26] Then opposition leader Hemant Soren had said that the BJP government wanted to acquire tribal land through the two amendment Bills for the benefit of corporates.

If the person coerced is a member of a Scheduled Caste or Tribe, a minor, or female, the prison term increases to four years.

The bill also made it mandatory for voluntary converts, to inform the Deputy Commissioner about their conversion, and to give full details about the circumstances.

[29] The amendments in the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, involved changes in the compensation duration and requirements for social impacts assessment.

[29] In June 2022, the BJP nominated Murmu as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)'s candidate for President of India for the 2022 election the following month.

Several opposition parties like BJD, YSRCP, JMM, BSP, SHS, JD(S) among others had announced support for her candidature prior to polling.

[30][31] On 21 July 2022, Murmu secured a clear majority in the 2022 Presidential election defeating common opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha with 676,803 electoral votes (64.03% of total) in 21 of the 28 states (including in the union territory of Puducherry) to become the 15th President of India.

[39] In the initial months, Murmu paid visits to the north-eastern states of the country including Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim and engaged in ceremonies of various development projects.

[40] In November 2022, she paid her first visit to her home state Odisha after assuming the office of the President to participate in the launch of various programmes.

She visited her alma mater and later met school children along the sideways of the road and walked two kilometres to pay obeisance to the deities of Puri Jagannath Temple.

[42][43] In May 2023, a row arose when the New Parliament House, under the Central Vista Project was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

[44][45] She expressed her anguish and despair against the continuous crime committed against women in the country, while reacting to the 2024 Kolkata rape and murder incident.