Jennifer Monserrate

Jennifer Monserrate
Monserrate in 2016
Member of Goa Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
2012
Preceded byAtanasio Monserrate
ConstituencyTaleigao
Personal details
Born
Jennifer Monserrate

(1970-03-24) 24 March 1970 (age 54)
NationalityIndian
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Other political
affiliations		Indian National Congress
SpouseAtanasio Monserrate
OccupationPolitician

Jennifer Monserrate (born 24 March 1970) is an Indian politician who is a three-term member from the Taleigao Assembly constituency of the Goa Legislative Assembly.[1] She is the incumbent Cabinet Minister for Revenue, IT, Labour and Employment under Chief Minister Pramod Sawant. She assumed office of Minister of Revenue and IT in July 2019.

She succeeded Rohan Khaunte who was earlier the Minister of Revenue and IT. She is the only woman Minister in Pramod Sawant's Cabinet as well as the first woman MLA to be elected from Taleigao Assembly for two successive terms.

She was one of the ten members of Indian National Congress who joined Bharatiya Janata Party in July 2019.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Jennifer Monserrate (Winner) TALEIGAO (NORTH GOA)". myneta.info. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  2. ^ 10 former Goa Congress MLAs, who joined BJP, reach Delhi to meet Amit Shah
  3. ^ In fresh jolt to Congress in Goa, 10 party legislators switch to BJP