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
(1952-02-14)14 February 1952[1][2] Ambala Cantonment, Punjab, India (present-day Haryana)
Died
6 August 2019(2019-08-06) (aged 67) New Delhi, India
Cause of death
Cardiac arrest
Political party
Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse
Swaraj Kaushal
(m. 1975)
Children
Bansuri Swaraj
Alma mater
Sanatan Dharma College (BA) Panjab University (LLB)
Profession
Senior advocate
Awards
Padma Vibhushan (2020; posthumously)
Source: [1]
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Sushma Swaraj (néeSharma; 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.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5][6] She decided not to contest the 2019 Indian general election due to health reasons 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.[7][8]
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.[9][10]
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^Varadarajan, Tunku (24 July 2017). "India's Best-Loved Politician". Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 26 July 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
^"Sushma Swaraj is 'India's Best-Loved Politician', opines US magazine Wall Street Journal". Zee News. 25 July 2017. Archived from the original on 25 July 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
^"Why Sushma Swaraj won't contest 2019 general elections". The Times of India. 1 December 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
^"Sushma Swaraj writes emotional tweet to PM Modi, says she is grateful". India Today. 30 May 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
^"MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS" (PDF). padmaawards.gov.in. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
^"Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, George Fernandes given Padma Vibhushan posthumously. Here's full list of Padma award recipients". The Economic Times. 26 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
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