Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian politician with the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), and has served as Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs since 2019 (this is as of March 2024). In the first Modi government, Sitharaman served as the Minister of Defence between 2017 and 2019, thereby becoming India’s second female defence minister and the second female finance minister after Indira Gandhi, and the first full-time female minister to hold each of those portfolios.
Sitharaman first joined the BJP in 2004 and was appointed party spokesperson six years later. She was first elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2014. While presenting her first budget, she made a statement by replacing the traditional budget briefcase with a ‘bahi-khata’ with the National Emblem to carry the speech and other documents.
Prof PK Sharma,Freelance Journalist,Barnala (Punjab)
Kudos to you Mr.Tewari for this superb piece !
But I found your objectivity to be wanting some where ? It is fine to analyse and talk about Mr.Arun Jaitley, Mr.Ravi Shankar Prasad and Ms.Nirmala Sitharaman, how they are discharging their constitutional obligations in the light of oath taken by them ?
I think it is not fair to blame them.
Why ?
Because they are simply following in the footprints of their “role model” and their “commander-in- chief “Mr. Narendra Modi !
NaMo though has been in the driver’s seat now for more than four years yet addressing election rallies for BJP he forgets
that he is the Prime Minister. His utterances reflect as if he was speaking as a leader of the opposition !
NaMo is many in one ! Sometimes he plays the role of Union External Affairs Minister during his foreign tours too though
the nation has a Foreign Minister in Mrs. Sushma Swaraj . Courtesy NaMo that he makes her task easier and workload light !
On November 8,2016 he took upon his shoulders the responsibility of Union Finance Minister/ the Governor Reserve Bank of India
too informing the masses about translating into actuality the DEMONETISATION decision of the government !
Just a couple of days ago, we saw NaMo in the role of a Yoga Practitioner in Dehradun !
Lion indeed is the king of the jungle and he can undertake any task or assignment !
Sir, you did discriminate by forgetting the lion in your discourse !
Prof PK Sharma,Freelance Journalist
Pom Anm Nest, Barnala (Punjab)
It is masterpiece
Excellently articulated in a crispy with facts & anecdotes. Another apt heading cud have been ” Minding Others Business”