Droupadi Murmu: BKs Land a New President
Posted: 14 Dec 2022The BKs land a new president, Droupadi Murmu of India.
What's interesting about this case for me is that they appear to used precisely the strategy as they did for Madam Sadat (the First Lady of Egypt from 1970 until her husband's assassination in 1981) 40 years ago, by targeting both after their husband had died. We know they have done this at a grassroots level too, by attending funerals and so on.
In short, exploiting people's trauma, targeting them when they are vulnerable, and incurring their debt by being superficially generous in the first place. Generally with such VIPs, they will be given special treatments, and leniencies as far as following the disciplines of the cult.
The president of India is the nominal head of the Indian executive, the first citizen of the country, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces.
They are indirectly elected by an electoral college comprising both houses of the Parliament of India and the legislative assemblies of each of India's states and territories, who themselves are all directly elected by the citizens.
What's interesting about this case for me is that they appear to used precisely the strategy as they did for Madam Sadat (the First Lady of Egypt from 1970 until her husband's assassination in 1981) 40 years ago, by targeting both after their husband had died. We know they have done this at a grassroots level too, by attending funerals and so on.
In short, exploiting people's trauma, targeting them when they are vulnerable, and incurring their debt by being superficially generous in the first place. Generally with such VIPs, they will be given special treatments, and leniencies as far as following the disciplines of the cult.
Murmu’s spiritual calling at Mount Abu
A wave of excitement swept across the normally sedate Brahma Kumari spiritual fraternity after learning that Droupadi Murmu was set to be the country’s new President by Rajesh Asnani, Express News Service.
A wave of excitement swept across the normally sedate Brahma Kumari spiritual fraternity after learning that Droupadi Murmu was set to be the country’s new President. For, Murmu has been a follower and a regular visitor of the Prajapita Brahma Kumari Spiritual University at Mount Abu in Rajasthan. The meditation technique she learnt from them helped her overcome grave personal tragedies in her life, as she unfortunately lost both her sons and husband in a span of five years.
Murmu’s life has been full of struggles, hail as she does from the Santhal tribal community in Odisha. When one of her sons, Laxman, died in an accident in 2009, she went into depression. That was when she went to the Brahma Kumari headquarters to learn Raja Yoga meditation from the Sisters there, informed the executive secretary of the institute, B K Mrityunjay.
He said Murmu was able to somehow come out of the shock, but then in 2013, her second son, too, died in an accident. And a year later, she lost her husband. “These tragic accidents brought an earthquake in her life, but she held the strings of spirituality so tightly that she got the strength to bear the adversities. She has a deep connection with spirituality and is constantly in touch with the headquarters of our institute,” Mrityunjay said.
During an event at the Mt Abu centre, Murmu said, “I come here because Brothers and Sisters are very dear and I take their positivity and vibrations because the atmosphere here is different.” Many at Mt Abu recall her as saying that “when people change by taking advantage of the value-based education of this institution, then India will rise again”.
The president of India is the nominal head of the Indian executive, the first citizen of the country, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces.
They are indirectly elected by an electoral college comprising both houses of the Parliament of India and the legislative assemblies of each of India's states and territories, who themselves are all directly elected by the citizens.