NEW DELHI: Amethi MP Smriti Irani was among the six women ministers to take oath in the newly-formed Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.
The number of women ministers in this Government is lower than the last time, even though the number of women elected in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls is the highest ever.
There were eight women ministers in the last Government.
Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Nirmala Sitharaman also took oath as Union Ministers, besides Irani.
The 43-year-old Amethi MP, who was the “giant slayer” in the Lok Sabha polls as she scripted a historic win over Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in the latter’s family bastion, took oath as Union minister along with 57 others.
Badal (52), from BJP ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), won the polls from Bathinda.
Sitharaman (59), who was the first woman to be appointed a full-time Defence Minister of the country, also took oath as Union Minister.
Fatehpur MP Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti (52) took oath as minister of state, along with new entrants Renuka Singh Saruta (55), the MP from Chhattisgarh’s Sarguja, and Debashree Chaudhuri (48), the MP from Raiganj in West Bengal. (AGENCIES)
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