Nirmala Wadhwani

She was the President of Ahmedabad Medical Association's Ladies Wing. She is from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). As a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly, she has served on the committees on ICDS, PC-PNDT, Shala Arogya and MLA Quarters.^[3] She won the 2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election from Naroda.^[4] In August 2016, she was appointed as Gujarat's Minister for Women and Child Development, in the cabinet of chief minister Vijay Rupani.^[1]

In February 2017 session of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly, a debate on the issue of farmer's suicide turned into a scuffle, during which Wadhwani was injured. She accused a few MLA's of the Indian National Congress for injuring her arm.^[5] Following the incident, her name was not included in the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) official list of candidates for the 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election.^[4]