Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party
Constituency : Amethi
State : Uttar Pradesh
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 1 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 17
Father's Name : Shri Ajay Kumar Malhotra
Mother's Name : Smt. Shibani Bagchi
Date of birth : 23 Mar 1976
Profession : Artist
Positions held :
2011 Elected to Rajya SabhaSept. 2011 - May 2014 Member, Standing Committee on Coal and SteelAug. 2012 - May 2014 Member, Parliamentary Forum on Disaster Management Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Urban Development27 May 2014 - 5 July 2016 Union Cabinet Minister, Human Resource Development5 July 2016 - 18 July 2017 Union Cabinet Minister, Textiles18 July - 2017 - 14 May 2018 Union Cabinet Minister, Information and BroadcastingAug. 2017 Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (Second term)Aug. 2017 - 24 May 2019 Member, Rajya SabhaMay, 2019 Elected to 17th Lok Sabha30 May 2019 onwards Union Cabinet Minister, Women and Child Development; and Textiles
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Literary, Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments
Awarded, (i) Best Actress of the Year consecutively for seven years by the Indian Television Academy and (ii) Indo American Society Young Achiever Award; associated with, (i) acting and production in Indian theatre, films and television and (ii) various NGOs such as Cancer Patients Aid Association and Vatsalya Street Kids Foundation; was the first Indian to represent the nation at the Monte Carlo Television Festival; appointed, Goodwill Ambassador to India by USAID for the WHO-ORS program for 3 years; established her own NGO called `People for Change` in 2007; `People for Change` has provided sports scholarships in Nasik, undertaken drinking water projects in rural India providing borewell facilities to over 35 villages in Maharashtra, collected and distributed over 10 tons relief material in association with 92.5 FM radio station, during the Mumbai floods in 2007; the organisation also provides scholarships for higher education to children from the economically weaker background and holds financial literacy programmes for women called `Women & Wealth`
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Reading
Countries Visited
Widely travelled
Other Information
Was National President, B.J.P. Mahila Morcha; National Vice-President, B.J.P.; was National Secretary, B.J.P. (twice); was Vice-President, Youth Wing, B.J.P., Maharashtra; was State Secretary, B.J.P., Maharashtra; was Member, National Executive, B.J.P. (five terms); Member, Indian Parliamentary delegation to the 126th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Kampala (Uganda) in 2012 led by Smt. Meira Kumar, Hon`ble Speaker, Lok Sabha; Elected Rapporteur, Drafting Committee of the Standing Committee on Sustainable Development, Finance and Trade, IPU; presented a Resolution on Redistribution of Power Not Just Wealth: Ownership of International Agenda; Elected Representative, Asia Pacific Group to the Task Force entrusted to establish first ever committee for Young Parliamentarians at the 126th Assembly of the IPU; as a Member of the Co-ordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians, presented India`s views on action taken by the IPU to strengthen parliamentary dimensions of UN Efforts to promote Partnership between Men and Women; as National President, B.J.P., Mahila Morcha, significantly and successfully pursued Permanent Commission for women in the Indian Army by facilitating legal aid to women officers; launched `Saksham` - the first ever vision document released by any political organization in India which underlines policies, programme and implementation tools for the upliftment of the differently-abled in India; named the Young Global Leader from India for the year 2015 by the World Economic Forum; deputed Political in-charge, B.J.P., Goa
