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Six debutant MPs who made it to Narendra Modi's Cabinet

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Six debutant parliamentarians from varied and interesting backgrounds have made it to the prime minister Narendra Modi's extended cabinet in Delhi on Sunday.

Six fresh faces inducted in the cabinet as ministers of state include, Mahesh Sharma, a doctor and MP from Gautam Budh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, Babul Supriyo, a singer and MP from Asansol in West Bengal, Jayant Sinha, a venture capitalist representing Hazari Bagh in Jharkhand, Vijay Sampla, MP from Hoshiarpur in Punjab, who has also worked as a plumber, Rajvardhan Singh Rathore, an Olympic silver medalist shooter and MP from Jaipur rural and Niranjan Jyoti, a sadhvi from Fatehpur in UP.

All the six fresh faces have been instrumental in their own ways in helping the BJP to get the magical numbers in Lok Sabha elections, earlier this year.

Fifty-one-year-old Jayant Sinha, son of former finance minister Yashwant Sinha is an alumnus of IIT and Harvard Business School and stayed in US for around two decades. He recently accompanied Modi during his US trip and played key role in arranging PM's meetings with investors and industrialists. Sinha, a well known investment fund manager and management consultant won his first Lok Sabha elections with a huge margin of over 1.5 lakh votes.

Another first timer Vijay Sampla, a prominent Dalit leader won the recent Lok Sabha elections from the reserved Hoshiarpur seat. BJP hopes to woo Dalit vote in 2017 Punjab assembly election and induction of Sampla into the cabinet could be a step in that direction.

BJP's unimaginable success in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh could be credited to leaders like Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti 47, a well known religious preacher, who was inducted in the cabinet on Sunday. She has helped the party to make inroads among the Dalit and backward classes in the state.

From Rajasthan, where BJP swept away the national elections induction of former army-man and Olympian shooter Rajvardhan Singh Rathore, is seen as party's balancing act. 44-year-old, Rathore is second representative from the state in the council of ministers.

Babul Supriyo's induction is seen as another futuristic investment of BJP in wake of 2016-state elections in West Bengal. The party eyes on huge victory in West Bengal considering the increasing anti-incumbency wave in the state. However, TMC has criticised the induction of 44-year-old singer in cabinet.

A doctor by profession, Mahesh Sharma is also the chairman and managing director of Kailash Healthcare Limited in Noida. He is also member of Parliament's Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare. A staunch follower of Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Sharma, 55, was also elected as MLA from Noida.

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