These are the new women ministers in the Narendra Modi Cabinet

There are now a total 11 women ministers, including seven new who...

...took office on Wednesday, in the new PM Modi cabinet.

These are the new entrants in the council of ministers --

Anupriya Singh Patel

Patel is a Lok Sabha MP from Mirzapur district in Uttar Pradesh. She has also served as Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2016-2019).

Sushri Shobha Karandlaje

Lok Sabha MP from Udupi Chikmagalur, has also served as a minister in Karnataka in various portfolios like Food and Civil Supplies, Power and Rural Development.

Darshana Vikram Jardosh

The Lok Sabha MP from Surat, Gujarat is serving her third term in the office. She has also been a corporator of Surat Municipal Corporation and a member of Gujarat Social Welfare Board.

Meenakshi Lekhi

Lekhi, who is a BJP leader from Delhi and also a Supreme Court lawyer, is serving her second term as MP from South Extension in Delhi.

Annapurna Devi

Lok Sabha MP for Koderma in Jharkhand, Bihar has also served as Minister of Woman and Child Welfare, Minister of Mines and Geology.

Sushri Pratima Bhoumik

Bhoumik, who comes from a family of farmers, is a Lok Sabha MP for Tripura West, serving her first term as MP.

Bharati Pravin Pawar

Pawar, who is also practising as a doctor in Nashik, is serving her first term as Lok Sabha MP from Dindori in Maharashtra. She has also served as a member of Nashik Zilla Parishad.