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Know Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, union minister whose remarks created ruckus in parliament

Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti is a BJP MP and Minister of State for Food Processing Industries in the Central government.Recently she has become talk of the town for the unparliamentary and uncouth language that she used

India TV News Desk Updated on: January 09, 2015 12:37 IST

Her family was exceedingly poor so she started working at a very young age to make two ends meet. She helped her father in fishing at the Yamuna River, close to her village. She would sell fishes in the village's weekly market. But the family could hardly survive on that income.

She has three brothers.

Poverty compelled her to work as a construction laborer and in the farm. She also joined satsangs or prayer gatherings where she found free food. Jyoti also found consolation there after returning exhaustively from the field.

Jyoti earned fame and quickly became a ‘katha vachak' – A person who tells stories, mainly from scriptures.

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