"Congratulations to...ministerial colleague @smritiirani on getting elected to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote in a tweet when union minister Smriti Irani (pictured) was elected to the upper house of the Indian parliament, the Rajya Sabha, on August 8, 2017. Irani, who holds charge of the textiles and information and broadcasting ministries, makes her maiden entry into the upper house.
Having joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2003, she became vice president of the Maharashtra Youth Wing of the Party in 2004. In early 2010, Irani was appointed national secretary of the BJP and in June of the same year, as......