Nirmla Wadhwani is a politician from Gujarat and was minister for Women and Child Development in
Vijay Rupani's cabinet. She represented
Naroda in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly.
Biography
Wadhwani is of
Sindhi heritage. She was previously a physician with specialization in
Obstetrics
Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), which is a surgi ...
and
Gynaecology
Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined are ...
. She had done a diploma in
sonography from
Croatia and has been the President of Ahmedabad Medical Association's Ladies Wing. She is affiliated to the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is a member of its executive committee in Gujarat. As a member of the
Gujarat Legislative Assembly, she has served on the committees on ICDS, PC-PNDT, Shala Arogya and MLA Quarters.
She won the
2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election
The 2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of Gujarat in December 2012 for all 182 members of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly. Incumbent Chief Minister Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), in power si ...
from
Naroda.
In August 2016, she was appointed Gujarat's Minister for Women and Child Development, the only female member in the cabinet of chief minister
Vijay Rupani.
In February 2017 session of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly, a debate on the issue of farmer's suicide turned into a scuffle and Wadhwani was injured. She accused a few MLA's of the
Indian National Congress for injuring her arm.
The BJP has not included her name in its official list of candidates for
2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election.
References
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Living people
Indian gynaecologists
Indian obstetricians
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Gujarat
Gujarat MLAs 2012–2017
Medical doctors from Gujarat
Women in Gujarat politics
Indian women gynaecologists
1964 births
Sindhi people
21st-century Indian women politicians