New Delhi: Seven Women’s Members, including Meenakashi Lekhi, Shobha Karandlaje and Anupriya Singh Patel, joined the Council of Prime Minister Narendra on Wednesday, taking overall women’s strength to 11 which is the highest one.
A total of 15 ministers of new cabinets and 28 ministers of State appointed, taking the power of the minister to 78.
Seven women who took oaths as Minister of State was Karandlaje, Darshana Vikram Jardosh, Lekhi, AnnPurnurna Devi, Pratima Bhoonik, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar and Apna Dal’s Anupriya Singh Patel.
Among them, three were the first MPs while Patel returned to the Council of Ministers because he was the Union Minister of State for Health under Prime Minister of Modi before.
Nirmala Sitharaman, Irani’s Smriti (Second Minister of Cabinet), Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti and Renuka Singh Saruta have become part of the Union Ministers.
Debhree Chaudhuri, Minister of State for the development of women and children, resigned this morning.
There were nine women in the first mod of 2014-19, including six in the cabinet.
Karandlaje, 54, is a member of Lok Sabha from Udupi Chikmagalur in Karnataka and presents a second term at home down.
He previously served as a cabinet minister in the Karnataka government, holding various portfolios such as food and supply of civilians, power, rural development, and the Raj Pancayati system.
Jardosh, 60, is a member of Lok Sabha from the letter in Gujarat.
He serves the term third as a member of parliament.
He also became a Corporator of Municipal Corporation letters and members of Gujarat Social Welfare Council.
Lekhi, 54, is a member of Lok Sabha from New Delhi and presents the terms of both members of parliament.
He is a Supreme Court lawyer and social worker.
Devi, 51, is the first Sabha MP from Kodarma in Jharkhand.
He has also become MLA four times from Jharkhand and Bihar and has served as a cabinet minister in the Jharkhand government.
He also serves as Minister of State for mine and geology in the Government of Bihar at a young age of 30.
Bhoonik, 52, is the first Lok Sabha MP for Tripura West in Tripura.
He comes from a humble background, and farming practice.
Pawar, 42, is also a member of the First Sabha for Dindori in Maharashtra.
He served as a member of Nashik Zila Parishad and worked to eradicate malnutrition and provide clean drinking water.
Before joining politics, he was a medical practitioner.
Patel, 40, is a member of Lok Sabha twice from Mirzapur at Uttar Pradesh.
As many as 43 ministers took an oath in the performance of expansion-cum-performance performance on Wednesday night.
These include, Sarbanou Sonowal BJP, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ajay Bhatt, Bhupender Yadav, Shantanu Thakur and Patil Kapil, and Paras Pashupati LJP.