Last Update: March 01, 2023, 16:13 IST
Nirmala Sitharaman is the current Finance Minister of India and the second woman to hold the position.
From Nirmala Sitharaman to Jayaram Jayalalithaa, these women have held some of the most important portfolios.
Since independence, a number of women have been holding important roles and responsibilities in Indian politics. Today the participation of women in every political party has increased. Veteran women leaders like Sonia Gandhi, Meira Kumar, Late Sheila Dikshit and Pratibha Patil have made the society believe that women can achieve anything. On this special occasion of International Women’s Day celebrated every year on March 8, let us know about some famous political women leaders of India.
Nirmala Sitharaman is the present Finance Minister of India India and is the second woman to hold this position. Prior to this, till 2017, she held the position of India’s Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Commerce and Industry and Finance and Corporate Affairs, along with being the spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She was also the second woman leader of independent India to head the Ministry of Defense after Indira Gandhi.
Former External Affairs Minister Late Sushma Swaraj is remembered as one of the most powerful women leaders of India. While in politics, he took many important decisions. At the age of 27, she became the State President of the Janata Party from Haryana. Apart from this, she also became the first woman Chief Minister of BJP.
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Has always been known as a fighting woman leader. Seeing his simplicity, no one can guess that he is the Chief Minister. Mamta Banerjee is the 8th Chief Minister of West Bengal. He entered politics at the age of 15 after passing the Higher Secondary examination. Since then, he is in Indian politics.
Sonia Gandhi is one of the most powerful politicians in the country. She took over as the leader of the Indian National Congress party in 1998, 7 years after the assassination of her husband and former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi. She held the position till 2017. Sonia Gandhi returned to the post in 2019 and was the president of the Congress party for 3 years before being succeeded by Mallikarjun Kharge.
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh four times. She also became the first woman Chief Minister from Scheduled Caste. Mayawati was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1989. In 1995, she created history by becoming the first Dalit woman to serve as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. The last time in 2007, she became the Chief Minister of UP for the fourth time. After losing to Akhilesh Yadav in the 2012 Legislative Assembly elections, she resigned from her post in 2012 and later that month, she was elected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament.
Late Jayaram Jayalalithaa’s journey from being a famous actress to becoming the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu was full of ups and downs. Jayalalithaa was a popular Indian female politician who acted in over 300 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and English before joining politics. At the age of 15, he started playing lead roles in Kannada films and started his political career in 1982. She was also the youngest Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu when she first took office in 1991.
Actress-turned-politician Smriti Irani, who was a popular TV actress, has made an important place for herself in the politics of the country today. She has successfully worked as a politician, holding important portfolios like Minister of Textiles and Minister of Women and Child Development and previously served as the Minister of Human Resource Development.
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