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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament from Jharkhand, Annapurna Devi succeeds Smriti Irani as the new Minister of Women and Child Development in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s third term government. Irani was dropped from the new cabinet after she lost her Amethi seat in Lok Sabha elections 2024 to Congress leader Kishori Lal Sharma. Fifty-five-year-old Devi is one of the two women Cabinet ministers in the PM Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at the Centre. The other woman minister in the 30-member cabinet is Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Who is Annapurna Devi? Elected from the Koderma Lok Sabha…