PORTFOLIO: Rural Development
AGE: 28
ASSETS: Rs 66.4lakh
EDUCATION: MA (Nottingham University)
Former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma’s daughter, Agatha Sangma is the youngest minister in India. The 28-year-old is a lawyer, environmentalist and amateur photographer, who got a feel of grassroots politics trailing her father during election campaigns. She has just won the Tura Lok Sabha seat for the second term. A law graduate registered with the Delhi Bar Council, Agatha says she has always been proud to be the daughter of her illustrious father. I have always been identified by my surname Sangma, she says. She is the youngest from the politicssavvy Sangma family after her father and two elder brothers to have entered into the electoral politics. I am very environmentally conscious and I would like to include women in the uplift of the environment , Agatha says adding she has plans to make use of the traditional skills of women, like weaving and organic farming in this regard.
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PORTFOLIO: Communications & IT
AGE: 31
ASSETS: Rs 4.6cr
EDUCATION: MBA (Pennsylvania Univ)
He made a mark in his constituency Dausa in 2004 as an “effective administrator” and a leader with a vision. The Wharton Business School MBA started young, entering politics for the first time in 2004 and becoming part of the electoral fray as a 26-year-old . The Gujjar leader won Dausa by 1.2 lakh votes, his father late Rajesh Pilot’s seat for five consecutive terms. He has been a member of Parliament's standing committee on home affairs, also a member of the consultative committee in the ministry of civil aviation. Education in rural areas is a priority for him and he runs a trust that provides monthly pensions to physically and mentally challenged and other underprivileged. Pilot has a professional pilots’ license and plays squash. Sachin is married to National Conference leader Farooq Abullah’s daughter Sarah.
29 May 2009, 1113 hrs IST
PORTFOLIO: Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Tourism
AGE: 47
ASSETS: Rs 4.7cr
EDUCATION: MA, MPhil (DU, Panjab University)
Efficient and unobstrusive. Despite her relatively young age, she has been a MoS in the P V Narasimha Rao government from 1991-96 . She has proved to be a hardy winner of Lok Sabha battles and is ready for demanding administrative tasks. The daughter of former Union minister Chaudhary Dalbir Singh, Selja is a businesslike , no-nonsense person, even if soft spoken. Selja, who is the first ever woman Dalit Cabinet minister from Haryana, also seems to have been elevated from her earlier MoS avatar to counter a growing Mayawati and BSP presence in the state. Incidentally, besides Punjab it was only Selja’s Ambala constituency in Haryana, which witnessed mayhem as followers of Dera Sachkhand protested the attack on one of their Vienna heads. Congress, which now says Selja will be its Dalit face in the land of Babu Jagjivan Ram, also wants to keep non-Jats , especially SCs, happy and in its fold. It (Selja’s Cabinet berth) shows that Congress is very much serious about Dalits, says spokesman Ved Prakash Vidrohi. Inside the party, too, her induction in cabinet is being seen as an attempt to ‘‘ balance’ the power structure in the Congresss state unit, where chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has been trying to increase his influence after taking over reins of the state in 2005.
29 May 2009, 1320 hrs IST
PORTFOLIO: Commerce & Industry
AGE: 38
ASSETS: Rs 14.9cr
EDUCATION: MA, MBA (Harvard, Stanford)
The Gwalior king’s coronation was held a few days after his father Madhavrao Scindia died in an air crash in September 2001. Four months on, he contested from Guna in a bypoll and won by more than 450,000 votes. Re-elected to 14th LS, he won the seat again though his margin reduced to 68,000 votes. Accommodated in Manmohan Singh government as minister of state. After graduation, he interned in the UN Economic Development Cell and had a stint as investment banker as well. One of the early young Turks, is known to be close to AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi.
29 May 2009, 1115 hrs IST
PORTFOLIO: Communications & IT
AGE: 46
ASSETS: Rs 1.3cr
EDUCATION: BSc, ML
This is a politically torrid season for this 46-year-old Dalit MP from Tamil Nadu’s coolest constituency of Nilgiris. Groomed by the late Murasoli Maran and now a loyalist of Rajathi Ammal, mother of Kanimozhi, Raja was elevated to cabinet rank with the environment portfolio in 2004. Earlier, Raja, known for his oratorial skills, had served in the rural development and health ministries as minister of state in the United Front and Vajpayee regimes. He got the powerful telecom ministry when Dayanidhi Maran was forced to quit the Union Cabinet two years ago and became a close confidant of Karunanidhi. Barely a few months later, Raja became “Spectrum Raja” as he was embroiled in a controversy over alleged irregularities in the sale of telecom bandwidth. Yet, chief minister Karunanidhi stoutly defended Raja and offered him the safe seat of Nilgiris in this election, when his pocketborough of Perambalur was de-reserved by the Constituency Delimitation Commission. In the election campaign, the spectrum controversy was the hot campaign theme in Nilgiris, yet he pulled off an electoral triumph. “People have rejected the false campaign over spectrum,” he thundered. He is entering the Lok Sabha for the fourth time in a row since 1996. A Raja is one of DMK’s propaganda secretaries.
29 May 2009, 1323 hrs IST
PORTFOLIO: External Affairs
AGE: 53
ASSETS: Rs 20.4cr
EDUCATION: PhD (Tufts University)
Former UN under-secretary general Sashi Tharoor stunned political observers by winning from the Kerala capital by a margin of 99,998 votes. Born in London to parents from Palakkad in Kerala, Tharoor completed his PhD at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Massachusetts . His doctorate came at age 22, a Fletcher record. Tharoor began his career with the UN in 1978, heading the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office in Singapore . He rose to the rank of UN under-secretary general in 2002 and was a strong contender for the post of UN secretarygeneral when Kofi Annan demitted office. A prolific writer, Tharoor is author of ‘The Great Indian Novel’ and ‘The Elephant, The Tiger and the Cellphone’.
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