Nirmala is India's 1st woman FM since Indira

May 31, 2019 13:54

Nirmala Sitharaman makes history by being the first woman to hold the portfolio of finance in India. Former PM Indira Gandhi had also held the finance portfolio, but Sitharaman is a full-time finance minister.

She has risen from the ranks of the BJP and was the Defence minister in the last term, again a record of sorts, since she was the first woman defence minister of India.

Again, Indira Gandhi had held the portfolio, but Sitharaman was a full-time defence minister.

Sitharaman has served as Member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament, since 2016. In 2003, during Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's tenure, she became a member of National Women for Commission and served on the position till 2005. Sitharaman had joined the BJP in 2006, when Nitin Gadkari was the party chief, and she became the national spokesperson of the party.

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