Smriti Irani to meet soldiers at Siachen on Raksha Bandhan

NEW DELHI: Union textile minister Smriti Irani will be going to Siachen Base camp on Raksha Bandhan while seven other women ministers of the Narendra Modi government will be visiting soldiers elsewhere that day.

Defence minister Manohar Parrikar said Irani will visit the Siachen Base Camp on August 18.

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, water resources Minister Uma Bharti, women and child welfare minister Maneka Gandhi will visit borders areas and interact with the soldiers.

Nirmala Sitharaman, minister of state for commerce; Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, minister of state in the ministry of food processing industries; and Anupriya Patel, minister of state in the ministry of health and family welfare will be also meeting soilders on Raksha Bandhan.