Who is Mansukh Mandaviya? The political journey of Modi’s new lieutenant entrusted with handling third COVID-19 wave

Mansukh Mandaviya was Taluka President of the Palitana unit of the BJP between 1998-2003.

Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat Mansukh Mandaviya has been appointed because the nation’s new well being minister. Mandaviya, a BJP chief from the Saurashtra area, changed Dr Harsh Vardhan. The Gujarat chief was earlier serving as Minister of State (MoS) and held the unbiased cost of the Transport ministry, moreover the Chemical substances and Fertilizers portfolio. He has been with the Modi authorities since 2016 and was first entrusted with Street Transport and Highways, Transport and Chemical substances and Fertilisers ministries on July 5, 2016 as an MoS. When PM Narendra Modi returned with an enormous mandate in 2019, he was once more sworn in as MoS for Chemical substances and Fertilisers with an unbiased cost of Ports, Transport and Waterways.

His political journey started as a member of the Gujarat Legislative Meeting from 2002 to 2007. He then served because the chairman of Gujarat Agro Industries Company Ltd between January 2011 and March 2012. Mandaviya was first elected to the Rajya Sabha in April 2012 and served as a Member of the Committee on Petroleum and Pure Fuel between Could 2012 and Could 2014 and once more from September 2014 to July 2016. Between September 2014 and August 2015, he was made a member of the Committee on Business. Mandaviya additionally served on the Nationwide Welfare Board for Seafarers, and Committee on Chemical substances and Fertilizers from December 2014 to July 2016.

Mandaviya’s first brush with politics was as a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, ABVP, the scholar wing of the BJP and in addition served as Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Palitana from 1994-96. He was Taluka President of the Palitana unit of the BJP between 1998-2003.

Mandaviya, in his new function as Well being minister, has his arms full. It was the federal government’s obvious failure to deal with the second wave of COVID-19 that value Dr Harsh Vardhan his chair.

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Mandaviya now faces an uphill process of getting ready the infrastructure essential to fight the upcoming third wave of COVID-19. The federal government is aware of that he will probably be wat he’d carefully on how he approaches the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mandaviya has additionally received a brand new deputy. Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar has succeeded Ashwini Kumar Choubey because the minister of state (MoS) for Well being and Household Welfare.

Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar, 42, is a first-time Lok Sabha member for Dindori in Maharashtra. She served as a member of Nashik zila parishad and labored in the direction of eradicating malnutrition and offering clear consuming water to individuals. Earlier than becoming a member of politics, she was a medical practitioner.

Mandaviya and Pawar had been obtained by senior officers of the ministry, together with Rajesh Bhushan, Well being Secretary; Vandana Gurnani, Extra Secretary and Mission Director, NHM (MoHFW); Dr Manohar Agnani, Extra Secretary (Well being); Vikash Sheel, Extra Secretary (Well being); Alok Saxena, Extra Secretary; Dr Sunil Kumar, DGHS (MoHFW); Arun Singhal CEO, FSSA, and different key officers.