Jayanthi Natarajan

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Jayanthi Natarajan
Jayanthi Natarajan in New York 2012
Minister of Environment and Forests (Independent Charge)
In office 12 July 2011 – 20 December 2013 (resigned)
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Minister of State for Coal, Civil Aviation and Parliamentary Affairs
In office 1997–1998
Prime Minister	Inder Kumar Gujral
Member of Parliament – Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu
In office 2008–2014
In office 1997–2002
In office 1992 – 1997 (resigned)
In office 1986–1992
Personal details
Born	(1954-06-07) 7 June 1954 (age 70) Madras, Madras State(now Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India)
Political party	Indian National Congress (1982–1997;2002–2015) Tamil Maanila Congress (1997–2002)
Spouse	V. K. Natarajan
Children	1 (son)
Residence	New Delhi/Chennai
Alma mater	Ethiraj College for Women
As of 26 January, 2007 Source: [1]

Jayanthi Natarajan (born 7 June 1954) is an Indian lawyer and politician. She was a member of the Indian National Congress and has been thrice elected Member of Parliament representing the state of Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha. From July 2011 to December 2013, she was the Minister of Forests and Environment (Independent Charge). She resigned as Minister of Environment and Forest on 21 December 2013. On 30 January 2015, she announced in a press conference at Chennai that she would be resigning from the Congress party alleging that "specific requests" by Rahul Gandhi were the basis of whether industrial projects were given clearances by her ministry, and that he shifted from a pro-environmental position to corporate-friendly stand for the elections in 2014.^[1]