he Narendra Modi 3.0 Council of Ministers consists of 72 members, featuring seven women, two of whom hold Cabinet rank—Nirmala Sitharaman and Annpurna Devi. This is a decrease of four women compared to the outgoing council of Ministers.
Those dropped from the council include former Union Minister Smriti Irani, Minister of State Bharti Pawar, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Darshana Jardosh, Meenakshi Lekhi, and Pratima Bhoumik.
Jyoti, Jardosh, Lekhi, and Bhoumik were not fielded by the BJP in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections while Irani and Pawar lost their seats in Amethi and Dandori, respectively.
Nirmala Sitharaman, a Rajya Sabha MP who is again in the Cabinet, has previously held significant portfolios such as finance and defence while Annpurna Devi, a two-time Koderma (Jharkhand) MP, has been promoted from the Minister of State rank to a cabinet minister position, having served as the junior minister for education in the previous government.
The other women sworn in as ministers include Anupriya Patel, Raksha Khadse, Savitri Thakur, Shobha Karandlaje, and Nimuben Bhambaniya.
Anupriya Patel, chief of Apna Dal (Sonelal), was previously the minister of state for health and family welfare and commerce and industry.
