Sushri Debasree Chaudhuri- MoS for Women & Child Devt.

Sushri Debasree Chaudhuri has been given the post of Minister of State in the Ministry of Child and Women Development in the 17th Lok Sabha under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Debasree Chaudhuri was introduced to politics during her college days. She has worked in the BJP's youth wing and women's front for many years in West Bengal.

She was promoted to the post of the General Secretary of the BJP's West Bengal a couple of years back.

Chaudhuri did not win both the previous elections she contested. In 2014, she stood from the Burdwan-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency but finished third in her first attempt.

In 2016, she contested in the Assembly elections, which again was an unsuccessful attempt.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, she contested the Raiganj seat, which ultimately proved to be a good decision by the BJP, as she overcame her nearest rival, Kanaialal Agarwal of the TMC, by 60,574 votes. She also defeated Mohammed Salim of the CPI(M) and Deepa Dasmunsi of the Congress in the process.

Yesterday, she was sworn-in as a minister of state along with singer-turned-politican, Babul Supriyo.

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.

Cabinet Ministers

Raj Nath Singh
Amit Shah
Nitin Jairam Gadkari
D. V. Sadananda Gowda
Nirmala Sitharaman
Ram Vilas Paswan
Narendra Singh Tomar
Ravi Shankar Prasad
Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Thaawar Chand Gehlot
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’
Arjun Munda
Smriti Zubin Irani
Harsh Vardhan
Prakash Javadekar
Piyush Goyal
Dharmendra Pradhan
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Pralhad Joshi
Mahendra Nath Pandey
Arvind Ganpat Sawant
Giriraj Singh
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Santosh Kumar Gangwar
Rao Inderjit Singh
Shripad Yesso Naik
Jitendra Singh
Kiren Rijiju
Prahalad Singh Patel
Raj Kumar Singh
Hardeep Singh Puri
Mansukh L Mandaviya

Ministers of State

Faggansingh Kulaste
Ashwini Kumar Choubey
Arjun Ram Meghwal
General (Retd.) V. K. Singh
Krishan Pal
Danve Raosaheb Dadarao
G Kishan Reddy
Parshottam Rupala
Ramdas Athawale
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
Babul Supriyo
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao
Anurag Singh Thakur
Angadi Suresh Channabasappa
Nityanand Rai
Rattan Lal Kataria
V Muraleedharan
Renuka Singh Saruta
Som Parkash
Rameswar Teli
Pratap Chandra Sarangi
Kailash Choudhary
Debasree Chaudhuri