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Sushma Swaraj (Sushma Sharma) was born on 14 February, 1952 in Ambala Cantonment, Punjab, India (present-day Haryana), is an Indian stateswoman and diplomat (1952–2019). Discover Sushma Swaraj's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

Popular As Sushma Sharma
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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 14 February 1952
Birthday 14 February
Birthplace Ambala Cantonment, Punjab, India (present-day Haryana)
Date of death 6 August, 2019
Died Place New Delhi, India
Nationality India

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Her husband is Swaraj Kaushal (m. 1975)

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1952

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.

Sushma Swaraj (née Sharma) was born on 14 February 1952 at Ambala Cantonment, Haryana, into a Punjabi Hindu Brahmin family, to Hardev Sharma and Shrimati Laxmi Devi.

Her father was a prominent Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh member.

Her parents hailed from the Dharampura area of Lahore, Pakistan.

She was educated at Sanatan Dharma College in Ambala Cantonment and earned a bachelor's degree with majors in Sanskrit and Political Science.

She studied law at Panjab University, Chandigarh.

A state-level competition held by the Language Department of Haryana saw her winning the best Hindi Speaker award for three consecutive years.

Sushma Swaraj was a strict vegetarian.

1970

She began her political career with Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad in the 1970s.

1973

In 1973, Swaraj started practice as an advocate in the Supreme Court of India.

1975

Her husband, Swaraj Kaushal, was closely associated with the socialist leader George Fernandes and Sushma Swaraj became a part of George Fernandes's legal defence team in 1975.

She actively participated in Jayaprakash Narayan's Total Revolution Movement.

After the Emergency, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Later, she became a national leader of the BJP.

1977

At the age of 25 in 1977, she became the youngest cabinet minister of the Indian state of Haryana.

She was a member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly from 1977 to 1982, winning the Ambala Cantonment assembly seat at the age of 25; and then, again from 1987 to 1990.

In July 1977, she was sworn in as a Cabinet Minister in the Janata Party Government headed by then Chief Minister Devi Lal.

She held the Labour and Employment ministries from 1977 to 1979.

1979

She became State President of the Janata Party (Haryana) in 1979, at the age of 27.

1987

Later she became Minister of Education, Food and Civil supplies during 1987 to 1990.

She was Education Minister of Haryana state in the Bharatiya Janata Party–Lok Dal coalition government from 1987 to 1990.

1990

In April 1990, she was elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha and remained there until she was elected to the 11th Lok Sabha from South Delhi constituency in 1996.

1996

Swaraj was elected to the 11th Lok Sabha from the South Delhi constituency in the April 1996 elections.

She served as Union Cabinet Minister for Information and Broadcasting during the 13-day government of PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1996.

1998

She also served as 5th Chief Minister of Delhi for a short duration in 1998 and became the first female Chief Minister of Delhi.

After a tenure in national level politics, she resigned from the Union Cabinet in October 1998 to take over as the fifth Chief Minister of Delhi.

She became the first female Chief Minister of Delhi.

Swaraj resigned from the position in December the same year.

She was re-elected to the 12th Lok Sabha from South Delhi Parliamentary constituency for a second term, in March 1998.

Under the second PM Vajpayee Government, she was sworn in as Union Cabinet Minister for Information and Broadcasting with an additional charge of the Ministry of Telecommunications from 19 March 1998 to 12 October 1998.

Her most notable decision during this period was to declare film production as an industry, which made the Indian film industry eligible for bank finance.

2014

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.

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.

2019

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.

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.

2020

She was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, posthumously in 2020 in the field of Public Affairs.