George Kurian, a Christian BJP member, is to be inducted into India's Union council of ministers under PM Modi.

George Kurian, a rare Christian member of India's BJP, is set to be inducted into the Union council of ministers under PM Narendra Modi. Kurian, a Kottayam native from Kerala, has been an advocate and state general secretary in the BJP for four decades. Despite a challenging political climate in the state, he worked to increase the party's outreach to minorities, especially the Christian community he belongs to.