10 Women Who Made a Mark in Indian Politics

Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee is the current Chief Minister of West Bengal and also the first woman to hold the position in the state. Popularly referred to as Didi, she is the founding member of the All Indian Trinamool Congress party formed in 1997 after splitting from Congress. In 2011, she won the election after side tracking the communist government, which had ruled for three decades in West Bengal. Mamata was India’s first women railway minister. Her unique political style always manages to make headlines.

Renuka Chaudhry
Candid and eloquent, Renuka Chaudary is the member of Rajya Sabha of Congress from Andhra Pradesh. She was also the former Union minister of State for Health and Family Welfare in the Deve Gowda administration, in 1997. She entered politics in 1984. In 1998 she quit TDP and joined Congress. She got elected to Lok Sabha in 1999 and 2004. She has also been on the Committee on Finance and Committee on the Empowerment of Women. In 2004 under the UPA government she became that Minister of State for Tourism and after that in 2006 she became the Union Minister of state for Women and Child Development until 2009.

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