Nirmala Sitharaman new Defence Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian politician, currently serving as the Defence Minister of India. Nirmala Sitharaman new defence minister, only the second woman to hold the post since former prime minister Indira Gandhi.
Nirmala Sitharaman formerly served as a Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs under the Ministry of Finance and the Minister for Commerce and Industry with independent charge. Before that, she acted as a national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party. When BJP came to power in 2014, she was first allotted a Rajya Sabha seat, from Andhra Pradesh.Currently, she is elected to the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka.
Nirmala Sitharaman joined Narendra Modi’s ministry in May 2014. Until then, she was working as a part of a team of six spokespersons headed by Ravi Shankar Prasad, for Bharatiya Janata Party
On May 26 2014, Nirmala Sitharaman was sworn in as Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Ministry of Commerce & Industry, as well as a Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs which fall under the Ministry of Finance headed by Arun Jaitley. She Contested and won a by-election to the Rajya Sabha from the state of Andhra Pradesh.
On 29 May 2016, she was one among the 12 candidates nominated by the BJP to contest the Rajya Sabha elections due on 11 June 2016. She successfully contested the elections from Karnataka. Nirmala Sitharaman takes over from Jaitley who also holds the heavy-workload finance ministry. On September 3rd, 2017 she was elevated to first full time woman Defence Minister of India.
. @nsitharaman Congrats Mam on a well deserved promotion as the Defense Minister????
Indian Forces welcomes you???? @adgpi #NirmalaSitharaman pic.twitter.com/YDSB5SxMpl— Maj Surendra Poonia (@MajorPoonia) September 3, 2017
Sitharaman was recently in China for a BRICS meeting where she was engaged in discussions with counterparts even as the protracted India-China border row played out in Doklam. The new defence minister highlighted her achievements as commerce minister.
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