Krishna Chudasama is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

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During the second cabinet Stoltenberg

Second cabinet Stoltenberg

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, she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Children and Equality

Norwegian Ministry of Children and Equality

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. An ethnic Indian

Indian diaspora in East Africa

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 from Tanzania

Tanzania

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 who came to Norway in 1988, she was the first State Secretary with immigrant background as well as the only person in the cabinet administration with an ethnic minority background. In 2007 she lost her position as the Ministry of Children and Equality halved its number of State Secretaries. Instead, another immigrant Hadia Tajik

Hadia Tajik

Hadia Tajik is a Norwegian Member of Parliament from the Labour Party. She is of Pakistani descent.-Early life and education:She was born in Norway, and hails from Bjørheimsbygd in Strand, Rogaland...

 was drafted into the cabinet administration as a political advisor, and later that year Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen

Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen

Manuela Myriam Henri Ramin-Osmundsen is a Norwegian politician belonging to the Norwegian Labour Party. Born in the French overseas department Martinique, she was appointed as Minister of Children and Equality Affairs in the second cabinet Stoltenberg on 18 October 2007, becoming the first...

 became the first cabinet member with immigrant background.

Before being a State Secretary Chudasama was the municipal commissioner of social affairs (sosialombud) in Fredrikstad

Fredrikstad

is a city and municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad....

municipality. She is a former member of Fredrikstad city council.