Bhubaneswar, May 4 -- President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday became emotional during her visit to her birthplace, Rairangpur for the first time after assuming office. While addressing a gathering at a meeting in Rairangpur, she narrated her journey.

"I was born at Uparabeda. And, I was reborn at Rairangpur. You showered your love and affection on me so generously that I became a councillor. Three years later, it was you who sent me to the Odisha Legislative Assembly," said the first citizen of India.

"Leaving behind many important works, I have come to Rairangpur. If the concept of birth and rebirth applies, then I feel, I owed something to my motherland in my previous birth and I am paying it off now in this birth," she said.

"What I am...