Nirmala Sitharaman: India’s first full time woman Defence
Minister
Nirmala
Sitharaman as India's first full-time woman
defence minister, delivering the biggest surprise in a Cabinet recast that saw
nine new ministers being sworn in, elevating the next generation of BJP leaders
to key berths and inducting in-house technocrats with an eye on the 2019 polls.
With external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, Sitharaman will be
the second woman member of the Cabinet Committee on Security, an elite
ministerial group that deliberates on major strategic issues.
While Indira Gandhi held charge as defence minister as PM, Sitharaman is
the first full-time woman occupant of the South Block perch, breaching an
enduring glass ceiling as she assumes responsibility of a male-dominated
military where demands for allowing women in combat roles are gaining traction.
Nirmala Sitharaman was born in Madurai , Tamil Nadu, India to Shri Narayanan Sitaraman and Savitri. She obtained a B.A. degree from Seethalakshmi Ramaswamy College, Tiruchirappalli and an MA degree in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1980 and MPhil.
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