Lok Sabha polls 2024: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman declines BJP ticket, says 'don't have...'

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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman joined the BJP in 2008 and has served as a national spokesperson for the party since 2010. Sitharaman was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, on August 18, 1959.

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Nirmala Sitharaman

Indian economist and politician (born 1959)

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Lok Sabha

Lower house of the Parliament of India

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Bharatiya Janata Party

Indian political party

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State in southern India

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