Bharati Pawar

Bharati Pravin Pawar is an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare of India from 7 July 2021.

and Minister of State for Tribal Affairs On 7 December 2023, She was elected to the 17th Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Dindori, Loksabha Constituency Maharashtra in the 2019 Indian general election as member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Bharti Pawar was born on 13 September 1978 in Narul-Kalwan, Adivasi region of Nashik, Maharashtra.

She is married to Pravin Pawar.

She is the daughter in law of former minister Arjun Tulshiram Pawar.

Pawar earned MBBS in 2002 from N.D.M.V.P's Medical College, Nashik.

Bharti started her career as a Member of Zilla Parishad.

She contested Lok Sabha election in 2014 as a Nationalist Congress Party candidate and was defeated by Bharatiya Janata Party candidate.

She has been awarded as Best Women Parliamentarian in December 2019 - by Lokmat Media Group

She requested candidacy again in 2019 but her request was declined by Nationalist Congress Party.

She joined the BJP in 2019.

She won the election after joining Bharatiya Janata Party.

Her father-in-law was 8 time MLA from same region and served as minister of state for tribal welfare in the First Deshmukh ministry of Government of Maharashtra.

She became union minister from Nashik region after 59 years.

She is also the first female union minister from Nashik.