<p>Actor-turned-politician Smriti Irani received the cabinet post of Women and Child Development Minister in the 17th Lok Sabha under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.</p>.<p>Smriti Irani joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2003, and in 2004 she became the vice-president of the Maharashtra Youth wing. In the 2004 Lok Sabha Elections, she was defeated by Kapil Sibal from Chandni Chowk constituency. Despite the loss, she was nominated as an executive member of the party's central committee.</p>.<p>In December 2004, she blamed Narendra Modi who was then the Gujarat Chief Minister, for BJP's electoral losses and threatened to fast unto death until he resigned. However, she later retracted this demand after BJP's central leadership threatened to take action against her.</p>.<p>In 2010, she became the national secretary of the party and the All India President of the party's women's wing. In 2011, she became a member of the Rajya Sabha and in 2012, became the party's vice-president. In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, she contested against Rahul Gandhi, in the latter's bastion Amethi at Uttar Pradesh.</p>.<p>She lost by a margin of 12.3% votes, and the uphill fight earned her a place in the cabinet as the Minister of Human Resource Development. On 2016, she was moved to the Textiles Ministry in PM Modi’s cabinet reshuffle and in 2017, she was handed the additional charge of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India).</p>.<p>In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, she again contested against Rahul Gandhi from Amethi, only to win this time by a margin of 55,120 votes.</p>.<p>The President appointed Narendra Modi as Prime Minister and administered the Oaths of Office and Secrecy to the Members of the Council of Ministers. Here’s a quick lowdown at the new Modi Cabinet.<br /><br /><strong>Cabinet Ministers</strong></p>.<p>Rajnath Singh<br />Amit Shah<br />Nitin Jairam Gadkari<br />DV Sadananda Gowda<br />Nirmala Sitharaman<br />Ram Vilas Paswan<br />Narendra Singh Tomar<br />Ravi Shankar Prasad<br />Harsimrat Kaur Badal<br />Thaawar Chand Gehlot<br />Subrahmanyam Jaishankar<br />Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’<br />Arjun Munda<br />Smriti Zubin Irani<br />Harsh Vardhan<br />Prakash Javadekar<br />Piyush Goyal<br />Dharmendra Pradhan<br />Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi<br />Pralhad Joshi<br />Mahendra Nath Pandey<br />Arvind Ganpat Sawant<br />Giriraj Singh<br />Gajendra Singh Shekhawat<br /> <br /><strong>Ministers of State (Independent Charge</strong>)</p>.<p>Santosh Kumar Gangwar<br />Rao Inderjit Singh<br />Shripad Yesso Naik<br />Jitendra Singh<br />Kiren Rijiju<br />Prahalad Singh Patel<br />Raj Kumar Singh<br />Hardeep Singh Puri<br />Mansukh L Mandaviya<br /><strong> <br />Ministers of State</strong></p>.<p>Faggansingh Kulaste<br />Ashwini Kumar Choubey<br />Arjun Ram Meghwal<br />General (Retd.) V. K. Singh<br />Krishan Pal<br />Danve Raosaheb Dadarao<br />G Kishan Reddy<br />Parshottam Rupala<br />Ramdas Athawale<br />Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti<br />Babul Supriyo<br />Sanjeev Kumar Balyan<br />Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao<br />Anurag Singh Thakur<br />Angadi Suresh Channabasappa<br />Nityanand Rai<br />Rattan Lal Kataria<br />V Muraleedharan<br />Renuka Singh Saruta<br />Som Parkash<br />Rameswar Teli<br />Pratap Chandra Sarangi<br />Kailash Choudhary<br />Debasree Chaudhuri</p>
<p>Actor-turned-politician Smriti Irani received the cabinet post of Women and Child Development Minister in the 17th Lok Sabha under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.</p>.<p>Smriti Irani joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2003, and in 2004 she became the vice-president of the Maharashtra Youth wing. In the 2004 Lok Sabha Elections, she was defeated by Kapil Sibal from Chandni Chowk constituency. Despite the loss, she was nominated as an executive member of the party's central committee.</p>.<p>In December 2004, she blamed Narendra Modi who was then the Gujarat Chief Minister, for BJP's electoral losses and threatened to fast unto death until he resigned. However, she later retracted this demand after BJP's central leadership threatened to take action against her.</p>.<p>In 2010, she became the national secretary of the party and the All India President of the party's women's wing. In 2011, she became a member of the Rajya Sabha and in 2012, became the party's vice-president. In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, she contested against Rahul Gandhi, in the latter's bastion Amethi at Uttar Pradesh.</p>.<p>She lost by a margin of 12.3% votes, and the uphill fight earned her a place in the cabinet as the Minister of Human Resource Development. On 2016, she was moved to the Textiles Ministry in PM Modi’s cabinet reshuffle and in 2017, she was handed the additional charge of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India).</p>.<p>In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, she again contested against Rahul Gandhi from Amethi, only to win this time by a margin of 55,120 votes.</p>.<p>The President appointed Narendra Modi as Prime Minister and administered the Oaths of Office and Secrecy to the Members of the Council of Ministers. Here’s a quick lowdown at the new Modi Cabinet.<br /><br /><strong>Cabinet Ministers</strong></p>.<p>Rajnath Singh<br />Amit Shah<br />Nitin Jairam Gadkari<br />DV Sadananda Gowda<br />Nirmala Sitharaman<br />Ram Vilas Paswan<br />Narendra Singh Tomar<br />Ravi Shankar Prasad<br />Harsimrat Kaur Badal<br />Thaawar Chand Gehlot<br />Subrahmanyam Jaishankar<br />Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’<br />Arjun Munda<br />Smriti Zubin Irani<br />Harsh Vardhan<br />Prakash Javadekar<br />Piyush Goyal<br />Dharmendra Pradhan<br />Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi<br />Pralhad Joshi<br />Mahendra Nath Pandey<br />Arvind Ganpat Sawant<br />Giriraj Singh<br />Gajendra Singh Shekhawat<br /> <br /><strong>Ministers of State (Independent Charge</strong>)</p>.<p>Santosh Kumar Gangwar<br />Rao Inderjit Singh<br />Shripad Yesso Naik<br />Jitendra Singh<br />Kiren Rijiju<br />Prahalad Singh Patel<br />Raj Kumar Singh<br />Hardeep Singh Puri<br />Mansukh L Mandaviya<br /><strong> <br />Ministers of State</strong></p>.<p>Faggansingh Kulaste<br />Ashwini Kumar Choubey<br />Arjun Ram Meghwal<br />General (Retd.) V. K. Singh<br />Krishan Pal<br />Danve Raosaheb Dadarao<br />G Kishan Reddy<br />Parshottam Rupala<br />Ramdas Athawale<br />Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti<br />Babul Supriyo<br />Sanjeev Kumar Balyan<br />Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao<br />Anurag Singh Thakur<br />Angadi Suresh Channabasappa<br />Nityanand Rai<br />Rattan Lal Kataria<br />V Muraleedharan<br />Renuka Singh Saruta<br />Som Parkash<br />Rameswar Teli<br />Pratap Chandra Sarangi<br />Kailash Choudhary<br />Debasree Chaudhuri</p>
