Modi 3.0 Cabinet 2024: Meet Seven Women Ministers Who Took Oath On June 9

Savitri Thakur, the Member of Parliament who won the Dhar Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh by over two lakh votes, has been appointed to the Modi Cabinet. In Modi 3.0, she has been made a minister. In the election, Savitri decisively defeated the Congress candidate, Radheshyam Muwel. Born on June 1, 1978, Savitri Thakur comes from an RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) background. She began her career as a coordinator in an NGO. Although her name includes "Thakur," she is originally from a tribal community. Savitri has completed her education up to the 10th grade.

Shobha Karandlaje is the Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. She is the second woman to hold this position in India and is one of the few female Members of Parliament from Karnataka who has been elected for three consecutive times.

Anupriya Patel, president of the Apna Dal (Soneylal), has secured a position in the Modi government 3.0. Born in 1981 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, Ms. Patel has served as the Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry since 2021. She has been representing Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur constituency since 2014 and has held the position of Apna Dal (Soneylal) party president since 2016.

Annapurna Devi, initially a homemaker, embarked on her political journey following the death of her husband, a Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) legislator, in 1998. On Sunday, she was sworn in as a Union Minister in the Narendra Modi Cabinet 3.0. Before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and won the Koderma seat by a significant margin. Despite her past association with the RJD, her swift rise within the BJP highlights her growing influence among the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in Jharkhand. Annapurna holds a master’s degree from Ranchi University. Her political career began with a victory in a state assembly by-poll in 1998, leading to her becoming a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly.

Nirmala Sitharama was handling Minisry of Finance in the Modi 2.0 cabinet. She is a Rajya Sabha member as she did not contest the Lok Sabha polls. It will be interesting to see if she retains her ministry or gets a new portfolio.

Raksha Khadse is three-time MP from Raver in Maharashtra. She is daughter-in-law of former senior BJP leader Eknath Khadse. She was the youngest MP in the 16th Lok Sabha, along with Heena Gavit. 

Nimuben Bambhaniya, one of three female BJP candidates to win the Lok Sabha elections in Gujarat, has been appointed as a Minister of State in the Union cabinet. The 57-year-old won the Bhavnagar constituency by a margin of 4.55 lakh votes against AAP's Umesh Makwana. She previously served as Bhavnagar's mayor for two terms and was vice president of the BJP Mahila Morcha's state unit from 2013 to 2021.