It is for the first time in the country that the finance portfolio has been allotted to a woman and finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman is managing it well, said Vanathi Srinivasan.
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Ashwini Vaishnaw is a 1994-batch former IAS officer of the Odisha cadre who worked as a deputy secretary in the PMO during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s term and has also been associated with many key initiatives of the Modi government. Armed with an MTech from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from Wharton, Vaishnaw brings to the table multidimensional skills drawn from stints in the corporate world and as an entrepreneur. Though BJD had the numbers to send someone from its ranks to the Rajya Sabha in 2019, it backed Vaishnaw’s nomination by BJP
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