Nirmala Sitharaman Biography: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian economist, politician, and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She has been serving as the Minister ... Nirmala Sitharaman (born 18 August 1959) is an Indian economist and politician who has served as the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs of the Government of India since 2019. Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian Politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. She is currently serving as the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs of India. Sitharaman has been the member of Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 2014. Nirmala Sitharaman is a prominent Indian politician and a senior leader in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), currently holding the portfolios of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government. She is also a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from Karnataka constituency. She is the first full-time woman Finance Minister of India, a position she assumed in May 2019. Earlier, Indira Gandhi had briefly held the finance portfolio ...