Indians who Left Their High Profile Jobs to Join Politics

By siliconindia | Thursday, 19 September 2013, 13:06 Hrs

5. Nirmala Sitaraman:
Nirmala Sitaraman is presently serving as National Spokesperson for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She has done her M Phil in International Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Before venturing into politics, she was employed in Pricewaterhouse Coopers as a Senior Manager (research and analysis) and also for the BBC World Service for some time. Sitaraman is also one of the Founder Directors of prestigious educational institution called Pranava in Hyderabad. She was also a member of the National Commission for Women from 2003-2005.

6. Dinesh Trivedi:
Dinesh Trivedi, a politician from the All India Trinamool Congress party was the founder member and first general secretary of the of this political party. This politician completed his MBA in 1974 and worked for two years in a Chicago based Company called Detex and also worked for a logistics provider Lee and Muirhead before returning back to India. In 1984, he left the job to start his own air freight firms for various clients in Kolkata. Politically, he was the former Union Minister for Railways and the former Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare.