Nirmala Sitharaman

Nirmala Sitharaman (English: Nirmala Sitharaman, Tamil: நிர்மலா சீதாராமன்; born August 18, 1959) is an Indian politician and the current Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs of India. She has been a member of the Union House, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, since 2014. Sitharaman was the former Defense Minister of India and was the second female Defense Minister after Indira Gandhi, the second female Finance Minister, and the first full-time female Finance Minister. She served as Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs under the Ministry of Finance and as Minister of Commerce and Industry with independent charge. Prior to this, she served as the national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).