Sushma Swaraj | |
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![]() Swaraj in 2017 | |
29th Minister of External Affairs | |
In office 26 May 2014 – 30 May 2019 | |
Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
Preceded by | Salman Khurshid |
Succeeded by | S. Jaishankar |
4th Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs | |
In office 26 May 2014 – 7 January 2016 | |
Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
Preceded by | Vayalar Ravi |
Succeeded by | office abolished |
7th Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha | |
In office 21 December 2009 – 19 May 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
Deputy | Gopinath Munde |
Preceded by | L. K. Advani |
Succeeded by | Rahul Gandhi (2024) [a] |
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs | |
In office 29 January 2003 – 22 May 2004 | |
Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Preceded by | Pramod Mahajan |
Succeeded by | Ghulam Nabi Azad |
Minister of Health and Family Welfare | |
In office 29 January 2003 – 22 May 2004 | |
Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Preceded by | C. P. Thakur |
Succeeded by | Anbumani Ramadoss |
Minister of Information and Broadcasting | |
In office 30 September 2000 – 29 January 2003 | |
Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Preceded by | Arun Jaitley |
Succeeded by | Ravi Shankar Prasad |
In office 19 March 1998 – 11 October 1998 | |
Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Preceded by | S. Jaipal Reddy |
Succeeded by | Pramod Mahajan |
In office 16 May 1996 – 1 June 1996 | |
Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Preceded by | P. A. Sangma |
Succeeded by | C. M. Ibrahim |
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
In office 10 April 1990 – 9 April 1996 | |
Constituency | Haryana |
In office 3 April 2000 – 8 November 2000 | |
Constituency | Uttar Pradesh |
In office 9 November 2000 – 2 April 2006 | |
Constituency | Uttarakhand |
In office 3 April 2006 – 30 May 2009 | |
Constituency | Madhya Pradesh |
5th Chief Minister of Delhi | |
In office 13 October 1998 – 3 December 1998 | |
Lieutenant Governor | Vijai Kapoor |
Preceded by | Sahib Singh Verma |
Succeeded by | Sheila Dikshit |
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
In office 31 May 2009 – 24 May 2019 | |
Preceded by | Rampal Singh |
Succeeded by | Ramakant Bhargava |
Constituency | Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh |
In office 7 May 1996 – 3 October 1999 | |
Preceded by | Madan Lal Khurana |
Succeeded by | Vijay Kumar Malhotra |
Constituency | South Delhi, Delhi |
Minister of Labour and Employment, Government of Haryana | |
In office June 1977 – June 1979 | |
Minister of Education, Government of Haryana | |
In office July 1987 – December 1989 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Sushma Sharma 14 February 1952[1][2] Ambala Cantonment, Punjab, India (present-day Haryana) |
Died | 6 August 2019 New Delhi, Delhi, India | (aged 67)
Cause of death | Cardiac arrest |
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Other political affiliations | Janata Party[3] |
Spouse | |
Children | Bansuri Swaraj |
Alma mater | Sanatan Dharma College (BA) Panjab University (LLB) |
Profession |
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Awards | Padma Vibhushan (2020; posthumously) |
Source: [1] |
Sushma Swaraj (née Sharma; 14 February 1952 – 6 August 2019) was an Indian lawyer and politician, who served as the Minister of External Affairs of India in the first Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. She was the second person to complete a 5-year term as the Minister of External Affairs, after Jawaharlal Nehru. A senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Swaraj was the second woman to hold the office of Minister of External Affairs, after Indira Gandhi. She was elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. At the age of 25 in 1977, she became the youngest cabinet minister of the Indian state of Haryana. She also served as 5th Chief Minister of Delhi for a short duration in 1998 and became the first female Chief Minister of Delhi.[4]
In the 2014 Indian general election, Swaraj won the Vidisha constituency in Madhya Pradesh for a second term, retaining her seat by a margin of over 400,000 votes.[5] She became the Minister of External Affairs in the union cabinet on 26 May 2014. Swaraj was called India's "best-loved politician" by the US daily Wall Street Journal.[6][7] She decided not to contest the 2019 Indian general election as she was recovering from a kidney transplant and needed to "save herself from dust and stay safe from infection" and hence did not join the second Modi Ministry in 2019.[8][9]
According to the doctors at AIIMS New Delhi, Swaraj succumbed to a cardiac arrest following a heart attack on the night of 6 August 2019. She was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, posthumously in 2020 in the field of Public Affairs.[10][11]
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