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The party has so far had many powerful leaders, including several ministers in the present Cabinet, who started off as spokespersons.Arun Jaitley: Jaitley became the BJP's national spokesperson ahead of the 1991 Lok Sabha elections, and the job stamped his position in the party as the most influential minister right from the Atal Bihari Vajpayee to the Narendra Modi era. Without winning a single Lok Sabha election, he helmed important ministries such as Information & Broadcasting and Disinvestment under PM Vajpayee and Finance under PM Modi.Nirmala Sitharaman: Sitharaman joined the BJP in 2008 and in just 11 years has made it to the national Cabinet, helming important ministries such as Industries and Commerce, Defence and Finance, simply on account of her work as the party's national spokesperson between 2010 and 2014. She too, like Jaitley, made a back door entry in to Parliament through the Rajya Sabha.Prakash Jawadekar: Five years after he was made the BJP national spokesperson in 2003,Jawadekar was sent to the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra in 2008. In the first Modi government, he served as the Environment Minister, Parliamentary Affairs Minister and Human Resources Development Minister. In its second term, he is the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Minister of Information and Broadcasting.Smriti Irani: TV actress Irani contested Delhi's Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat on a BJP ticket in 2004 and lost. But her political fortune reversed after she was appointed the party spokesperson during Nitin Gadkari's tenure as the BJP chief. In 2011, she reached the Rajya Sabha and in 2014 became the Minister of Human Resources Development, Information and Broadcasting, and Textiles. In 2019, she won the Amethi Lok Sabha seat defeating the Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. She is now the Women and Child Development Minister in the Union Cabinet.Anil Baluni: Considered close to BJP chief Amit Shah, Baluni's real rise started after he became the party's national spokesperson in 2014. Three years later, he was made its national media incharge and a year later he was sent to the Rajya Sabha from Uttarakhand.( With inputs from IANS )

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Former Rajya Sabha member and Congress leader Dr Karan Singh on Monday wrote to Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, requesting him not to consider abandoning the existing Parliament building for a new one. ...

Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday accused that the BJP will withdraw the scheme of giving free 200 unit electricity and said this shows that the party is "anti-people". ...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader G.V.L. Narasimha Rao said on Saturday that if N. Chandrababu Naidu is ready to merge his Telugu Desam Party (TDP) with the BJP, he is ready to talk to the party leadership. ...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that the odd-even vehicle rationing scheme will only be implemented on "non-transport four-wheeled vehicles", exempting two-wheelers and emergency vehicles. ...

The Centre has directed state police chiefs to carry out a detailed study on activities of radical elements in various jails to monitor and counter spread of radicalization inside prisons. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has also asked police head ...

The Congress party has released the list of star campaigners for the bye-elections in four assembly constituencies of Phagwara, Mukerian, Dakha, and Jalalabad in Punjab. ...

Ahead of the three-day winter session of the Karnataka Assembly from Thursday, Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri here on Wednesday banned national and regional private television channels from covering proceedings live. ...

The fielding of Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi on former Finance minister Arun Jaitley's Rajya Sabha seat from Uttar Pradesh, has once again cemented the spokesperson's position as a stepping stone to bigger successes ...