Nirmala Sitharaman biography: Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs

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Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), serving as the Minister of Finance & Minister of Corporate Affairs and has served as the Minister of Defence since 2017 also served as Member of the Rajya-Sabha, Upper house of the Indian Parliament, since the year 2016.
Sitharaman is India's second female defence minister. Sitharaman has prior served as the Minister of State for Finance & 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 BJP.

Personal life:

Nirmala Sitharaman was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, to Savitri and Narayanan Sitharaman. Her father, Narayanan, hailed from Musiri, Tiruchirappalli, while her mother's family had its roots in Thiruvenkadu, and in the Thanjavur and Salem districts of Tamil Nadu.
Her father was an employee of Indian Railways and hence she spent her childhood in various parts of the state.

Education life:

She had her schooling from Madras and Tiruchirappalli. She obtained a BA in economics at the Seethalakshmi Ramaswamy College in Tiruchirapalli and a master's degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi in 1980.
She received a PhD in "Indo-European textile trade within the GATT framework".
While studying at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Sitharaman met her husband Parakala Prabhakar, a Telugu Brahmin from Narsapuram, Andhra Pradesh.
While Nirmala Sitharaman leaned towards the BJP, her husband was from a pro-Congress family. They married in the year 1986.
Prabhakar served as a communications advisor to the Andhra 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, Sitharaman 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 as on 11 June 2016. She successfully contested her seat from Karnataka state.
As pn 3rd September 2017, she was elevated to Defence Minister, being only the second woman after Indira Gandhi to hold the Defence Minister post.

Non-political career :

Outside the political sphere, Nirmala Sitharaman has also served as an assistant to Economist in the Agricultural Engineers Association in the UK (United Kingdom).
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 National Commission for Women. In 2017, she was one of the founding directors of Pranava school in Hyderabad

Summary :

Nirmala Sitharaman was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), prior serving as the Minister of Defence since 2017 as of now serving as the Minister of Finance & Minister of Corporate Affairs also Nirmala Sitharaman is Member of the Rajya Sabha, since 2016. Nirmala Sitharaman is India's second female defence minister.
Nirmala 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 BJP.

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