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.
Why to worry, they will showcase cow vigilantes, they will showcase religious hatred and intolerance that has been successfully proliferated, they will bring in Ram Mandir again. Political class has lost all credibility.
Defense purchases are urgent in nature cannot expect local industries under Make in India programme to give instant results
It is sad that things have not moved at the desired pace. Although intensiond being good: Govt & beauracracy has to do much more in enabling process .
South block & north block should just be a supervisor : the whole process of procurement should move out to a separate enabled team of professionals / stake holders to ensure time bound decisions & supplies. Such a team can have few EMINENT personnel to guide in case of any doubt.
When cabinet ministers including the Prime minister are rolling for election campaigns all over the country to keep intact their power, all indians have to but wait for miracles to happen in changing their lives. Centre & state elections should be held on one go so as to save months of time for public as well the govt thus ensuring more productivity
Reliance communication with reliance Jio has failed telecom sector under the umbrella of bjp govt but still govt revived reliance via reliance defense deal… modi govt only working for corporate with polarised vote bank which is actually making India economically weaker
Really correct modi always behind reliance brothers….
The articled failed to mention the Rafale fighter jets and Dassault commercial jets being manufactured in collaboration with Reliance Defense. They also failed to mention the recent order of Tejas and LCH by the Indian air force from HAL. Speaking of HAL they are also making Kamov choppers which will eventually be exported from India. This article is biased. BJP will not just come to power in 2019 they will be in power for the next 70 years. Har Har Modi Ghar Ghar Modi.
Forgive this ignorant bhakt….rafale deal is as good as dead for the IAF with the original make in India clause done away with Modi bravado failing to give HAL a license to manufacturer this beauty here. We were to have 3sqaudrons now with less than 40 pieces he can go to town shouting but Indians are fools to believe him at least for now
Mr Bhakat Bharat,
1)The original well thought Rafale deal was sabotaged to project Nammo as the quintessential savior conjuring unheard solutions in between boiling water and adding tea leaves.
2)LCA project is 25 years old everything to do with the political crass NDA and UPA are. It’s a good advanced airframe with the latest fly by wire systems and a terribly underpowered engine still under development not able to satisfy defense specs.
3) This PR Santa will bankrupt India with his hare brained schemes like Demontization with a badly implemented GST.
4)This PM on permanent campaign mode with a solution for all bhakats 1)by instigating the minority by placating and playing for the gallery.2)Useless slogans and acronyms. 3)Low life comments not fit for a PMs in power.
5)Total manipulation of the state apparatus 1)finance 2)media 3)EC 4)judiciary 5) people
Hence its the worst government we can get.. Hence it subscribes to the adage by the people for the people. We deserve such leaders because of people like you Sadly.
Man Mohan or Modi… All political leaders are same. They are influenced by brucracy who are actual Govt in power. Imagine even the AON is cleared by Civil servants who have no exposure to defence deployment except a visit to defence establishments for a few days during their training. What wonders can U expect from a new government.
This is INDIA where we merry when some good initiative does not take off. Look at the intentions. It states WE can. It’s for us..Let’s find the gaps and try to fill it. We politicise everything. Such initiatives have to be kept out of political ring and taken up as citizen zest.
The trio of IAS ,Armed Forces officers and Politicos coupled with cronies can never let go . Our enemies use them well too . Only a brutal drubbing in a real War with our terrible equipment and poor training shown up, may ,and I repeat may result in something better . Only a terrible defeat like 1962 . Till then dream on .
How do you expect big ticket production houses to start manufacturing here within a period of 3 years or so.. More so when rest of the agencies are acting as a crab, always pulling down, something which a retarder parachute is designed for.. Amazing to see people, when they expect Lockheed to start manufacturing within months of their showing intents.. The bureaucracy is so god damn steeped in their own safe world, you can only feel frustrated.. Hence the pace has to be slow.. Give them sometime.. We need not be in a tearing hurry.. They have no choice but to deliver.. They will..
This Ministry is caught in procedural traps and time wraps. The old licensing system has come back through the back door.Unless the Services are given total independent authority and responsibility to procure what they need,this “midsummer’s night dream” will continue.
The problem with MODI/BJP is,neither they can run govt. nor Parliament.They failed everywhere.
… metallurgist …
The first priority should be to get the brave Indian jawan a world class rifle, initially imported, with steadily increasingly local content. Had Manohar Parrikar, a matallurgist from IIT Powai, achieved this modest milestone, there would have been something to remember him by.