Did you know Irani was the youngest minister in the 2019 Council of Ministers at the age of 43?
Smriti Irani, the famous politician and former actress, is a Minister in the Union Cabinet of India since May 2014. Born on 23 March 1976, she is currently heading the Ministries of Women and Child Development and is the first Non-Muslim to serve as the Minister of Minority Affairs.
As a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, she is a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, and represents Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, the seat of which she won by defeating Rahul Gandhi in the 2019 Indian general election. In fact, did you know that she was the youngest minister in the 2019 Council of Ministers at the age of 43?
In 2001, she married a Parsi businessman, Zubin Irani, and they have a son named Zohr and a daughter named Zoish.
She joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2003, and was named the vice-president of the Maharashtra Youth Wing in 2004. In August 2011, she was finally sworn in as a member of parliament from Gujarat to the Rajya Sabha, and in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced her as the Minister of Human Resource Development in his cabinet.
