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| Ms. Priyanca Radhakrishnan |
Ms. Priyanca Radhakrishnan(Aged 41) has become the first Indian Origin Woman to become New Zealand's Minister for Diversity, Inclusion and Ethnic Communities.
In addition to this, she has become the Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector and Associate Minister for Social Development and Employment.
In September 2017, she was elected first as a Member of Parliament belonging to the Labour Party. In 2019, she was appointed the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Ethnic Communities.
She has spent her work life advocating on behalf of people whose voices are often unheard - women survivors of domestic violence, and migrant workers who have been exploited.
She has become New Zealand’s first-ever Kiwi Indian Minister, the New Zealand Herald newspaper quoted Indian Weekender as saying.
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| PM Jacinda Ardern |
Here's What Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Has To Say About The New Minister:
Announcing the names of the new ministers, Prime Minister Ardern said: "I am excited to be bringing in some new talent, with first-hand experience in the areas that they will be working in, and reflecting the New Zealand that elected us on the 17th of October."
“Within this line-up, I’m playing to people’s strengths,” she said.
“This is a Cabinet and an executive that is based on merit but also happens to be incredibly diverse,” Ms. Ardern said, days after her centre-left Labour Party won a landslide victory in the country’s general election.
The new executive will be sworn in on Friday, which will be followed by the Cabinet’s first meeting.
“Much of what we’re focused on is making sure we’ve got our economic recovery hastened,” the 40-year-old Prime Minister said. If ministers don’t deliver, they will be shown the door, Ms. Ardern warned.
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