Residence Hyderabad | Name Nirmala Sitharaman Children 1 | |
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Office Ministry of Commerce and Industry since 2014 Education Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College (1980), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Similar People Parakala Prabhakar, Piyush Goyal, Arun Jaitley, Meenakshi Lekhi, Smriti Irani Profiles | ||
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
Nirmala Sitharaman Is India's New Defence Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian politician currently serving as the Defence Minister of India. She is also a member of the Rajya Sabha for Karnataka.
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- Nirmala Sitharaman Is Indias New Defence Minister
- Nirmala sitharaman vs anand sharma make in india debate
- Personal life
- Political career
- Non Political Career
- References
Sitharaman has formerly served as the Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs under the Ministry of Finance and the Minister for Commerce and Industry with independent charge. Prior to that she has served as a national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Nirmala sitharaman vs anand sharma make in india debate
Personal life
Sitaraman was born in Tamil brahmin family in Madurai, Tamil Nadu to her parents Narayanan and Savitri.
Her father, Narayanan Sitaraman, hailed from Musiri, Tiruchirappalli district in Tamil Nadu. Her mother's family had its roots in Thiruvenkadu and Salem district. Her father was an employee of Indian Railways and hence she spent her childhood in various parts of the state. She was schooled in Madras and Tiruchirappalli. She obtained a BA in economics at the Seethalakshmi Ramaswamy College in Tiruchirapalli. And her Master's degree in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
She met her husband Parakala Prabhakar, a Telugu speaker from Narsapuram Andhra Pradesh, while studying in the Jawaharlal Nehru University. While Nirmala leaned towards the BJP, her husband was from a pro-Congress family. He is currently a communications advisor to the Andra Pradesh Chief Minister, Chandrababu Naidu.
Political career
Nirmala Sitharaman joined the BJP in 2008 and has served as a spokesperson for the party. In 2014, she was inducted in Narendra Modi's cabinet as a junior minister.
In May 2016, she was one of the 12 candidates nominated by the BJP to contest the Rajya Sabha elections due on 11 June 2016. She successfully contested her seat from Karnataka. On 3 September 2017 she was elevated to second female Defence Minister of India.
Non-Political Career
Outside the political sphere, Sitharaman has served as an assistant to Economist in the Agricultural Engineers Association in the UK. During her stay in the UK, she has also served as a Senior Manager (R&D) for Price Waterhouse and briefly at the BBC World Service. She has also served as a member of the National Commission for Women. As of 2017, she is one of the founding directors of Pranava school in Hyderabad.