It's Smriti Irani 2.0

June 09, 2017 15:48

Union Minister for Textiles Smriti Irani is back in the good books of the BJP. Grapevine had it that she had been kept at bay by the BJP leadership for "reasons" best known to her.

The minister is now on course correction and it is believed she had a long meeting with Prime Minister Modi and apologised for certain remarks she had made against party colleagues. She has been pardoned and will now be the face of Amethi in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

She has been known to work hard during elections and the 2014 polls saw her making serious inroads into Amethi, historically a Gandhi stronghold.

But the RSS aversion to Irani has not bode well for her and it is believed to be one of the reasons she was shunted out of the prestigious and important Human Resources Development ministry. Sources say that pet projects of the RSS had not been implemented and the RSS could not take her into confidence and she was soon downgraded to the textiles ministry.

But she has learnt her lessons and her political graph is on the rise.

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