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> Ministers of State (Independent charge) > PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS > I&B > POWER AND COAL > COMMERCE & INDUSTRY >NOT AVAILABLE DHARMENDRA PRADHAN PRAKASH JAVADEKAR PIYUSH VED PRAKASH GOYAL NIRMALA SITHARAMAN RAO INDERJIT SINGH Date & year of birth: June 26, 1969 Date & year of birth:January 30, 1951 Date & year of birth: June 13, 1964 Date & year of birth:August 18, 1959 Date & year of birth: February 11, 1950 Constituency: RS MP from Bihar Constituency: RS MP from Maharashtra Constituency: RS MP from Maharashtra Constituency: None Constituency: Gurgaon Whether represented the constituency Whether represented the constituency Whether represented the constituency Whether represented the constituency Whether represented the constituency before: Yes before: Yes before: No before: No before: Yes Whether held ministerial charge earlier: Whether held ministerial charge earlier: Whether held ministerial charge earlier: Whether held ministerial charge earlier: Whether held ministerial charge earlier: No No No No Minister of State for External Affairs Dharmendra Pradhan, a Javadekar is an official Piyush Goyal, a crucial The articulate national (2004–2006) and as Minister of State for minister of state with spokesperson for the BJP member of Team Modi, spokesperson of the BJP, Defence Production from 2006 to 2009 independent charge, is and Rajya Sabha MP from was perceived as bringing Nirmala Sitharaman, has Rao Inderjit Singh considered a confidant of Maharashtra since 2008. in Narendra Modi’s vision never contested a switched over from the Prime Minister Narendra He has been associated into the drafting of the Parliamentary election. An Congress to the Bharatiya Modi. Pradhan is a Rajya with the Akhil Bharatiya BJP’s manifesto. Goyal, a Arun Jaitley acolyte, she Janata Party in Sabha MP from Bihar. He Vidyarthi Parishad since Rajya Sabha MP, is also the holds an M Phil and Ph D September last year, over was also the BJP in-charge of Bihar. his student days. He’d worked in the Bank of party’s national treasurer. A lawyer as well as from the Jawaharlal Nehru University and is differences with Haryana Pradhan started as an Akhil Bharatiya Maharashtra from 1971 to 1981. Considered an chartered accountant by profession, Goyal in an authority in International Relations. A chief minister Vidyarti Parishad activist in 1983 and later Arun Jaitley acolyte, he has also been prolific this elections was spearheading the party’s late entrant into politics, she was appointed Bhupinder Singh Hooda. He has been joined the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha. in his writings. As a journalist, he has been Information, Communication and Campaign to the National Commission for Women as a rewarded with a ministerial berth. Singh Modi picked Pradhan out for his joint editor of a Marathi daily, Kesari, and Committee that ensured that BJP’s Prime member from 2003 to 2005. The BJP’s move was an MLA in the Haryana assembly for organisational skills and entrusted him written for newspapers Tarun Bharat and Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s to have 33 per cent reservation for women in four terms, beginning in 1977, and has also with being the in-charge of Tripura in Kaal. He was a member of a Maharastra message be successfully conveyed through the party, paved the way for her upward been a state minister. At the Centre, in the 2004, Chhattisgarh in 2008 and Bihar in Assembly for two terms from 1990 to 2002. He IT, web, mobile and social-media. As an mobility in the ranks. She subsequently was UPA government, he has been Minister of 2010. He has also been organisational in- was the BJP’s pointsman for Andhra for investment banker, he sits on the boards of a member of national executive council and State for External Affairs and charge of the party in Karnataka, striking an alliance with Telugu Desam Party several banks and advises corporates on made the national spokesperson in the year subsequently Minister of State for Defence Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Odisha. He is chief N Chandrababu. Father Keshav Krishna management strategy and growth. During 2010. A Tamilian, married to an Andhraite, Production from 2006 to 2009. Since 2009, currently a general secretary and Javadekar was a senior of the Hindu his 27-year-long political career with the BJP, she has carved out a niche for herself and is he has chaired the parliamentary considered a rising star. Mahasabha and its Pune head, being a he has served as member of the national known for her cool demeanour in the most information technology follower of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. executive. heated of debates. committee. >NOT AVAILABLE >NOT AVAILABLE >NOT AVAILABLE >NOT AVAILABLE >NOT AVAILABLE SHRIPAD YESSO NAIK V K SINGH JITENDRA SINGH SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR SARBANANDA SONOWAL Date & year of birth: October 4, 1952 Date & year of birth:May 10, 1951 Date & year of birth:November 6, 1956 Date & year of birth: November 1, 1948 Date & year of birth:October 31, 1962 Constituency: LS member from North Goa Constituency: Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Constituency: Udhampur, J&K Constituency: Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh Constituency: Lakhimpur, Assam Whether represented the constituency Whether represented the constituency Whether represented the constituency Whether represented the constituency Whether represented the constituency before: Yes before: No before: No before: Yes before: Yes Whether held ministerial charge earlier: Whether held ministerial charge earlier: Whether held ministerial charge earlier: Whether held ministerial charge earlier: Whether held ministerial charge earlier: Yes No No Yes No Shripad Yesso Naik was the General (retd) V K Singh Jitendra Singh,who Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Sarbananda Sonowal quit minister of state for won the Lok Sabha teaches endocrinology the BJP veteran, has won the Asom Gana Parishad agriculture, civil aviation election with the second and diabetology, defeated a record seven times from (AGP) to join the BJP in in the earlier NDA highest votes margin after Congress leader Ghulam Bareilly constituency 2011. He is currently the government. Naik hails Narendra Modi. Singh Nabi Azad from the since 1989 except for the Bharatiya Janata Party from the backward became the first army Udhampur Lok last election in 2009, state president. Sonowal community of Bhandara chief, who dragged the Sabha constituency in when he was defeated by hails from the tea tribes that comprises 15 per cent of the Goan central government to the Supreme Court Jammu by 60,000 Congress’ Praveen Singh Aaron. He was the which are yet to get the Scheduled Tribes population. Naik is also seen as a rival to Goa over a dispute over his age, but had to finally votes. Singh is a published author, having minister of State for petroleum and natural status. Sonowal defeated Union Minister Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar. His stand-down. His actions had spooked fears written eight books. gas in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government Ranee Narah in Lakhimpur constituency. He inclusion in the cabinet as MoS (independent of a “coup” among the highest echelons of He is a national executive member of the both in 1998 and then again in 1999 and is credited with the BJP’s victory in seven of charge) is being seen as a slight to Parrikar, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Bharatiya Janata Party and chief 2003. For a brief period, he was a minister of the 14 seats in Assam, increasing the BJP’s who was seen as much too visible during the (UPA). He, however, enjoys image of an spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s state for heavy industries and public vote share in Assam to 35 per cent, which BJP meeting in September 2013 where incorruptible officer. Born in 1951, Singh Jammu and Kashmir unit. Singh has been enterprises, with additional charge of also meant his former party, the AGP, was Narendra Modi was anointed as the party’s became India’s first para-commando to employed with the Jammu Government Parliamentary Affairs. In between, he was decimated. AGP won only four per cent vote prime ministerial candidate. Naik was the head the Indian army. He has seen action Medical College and Hospital. His medical also MoS for labour for a few months. share and no seats. "My priority is Assam's Goa BJP unit chief from 1990 to 1995, MLA in during the 1971 Bangladesh war and the practice helped increase his Gangwar, who has held several posts all-round development, besides zero the Goa Assembly and head of BJP legislature 1999 Kargil war. After retirement, he joined popularity in Doda, Bhaderwah, within the BJP state unit in Uttar Pradesh, tolerance for the illegal migrants and party in 1995-96. He was elected to the Lok the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) earlier this Kathua, Ramban, Bani, Basohli, Padar and was the chief whip of the BJP in the 14th Lok complete sealing of Indo-Bangla border," Sabha in 1999. year. Udhampur. Sabha in 2004. Sonowal said. 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