Cabinet Ministers

National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, who won from the Hazratbal constituency, has held the post of chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. His son, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, heads the NC-Congress coalition government in the state.

Selja Kumari, another Dalit Congress leader, hails from Haryana. She has served as a minister of state (independent charge) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation in the first UPA government. She was also part of the Narasimha Rao-led Congress government, where she served as the Minister of State for Education and Culture.

Pawan Kumar Bansal, who was elected from the Chandigarh constituency, has served as the minister  of state in the Ministry of Finance in the first UPA cabinet.