Salman Khurshid

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Salman Khurshid (2011)

Salman Khurshid ( Hindi सलमान खुर्शीद Salamān Khurśīd ; born January 1, 1953 in Aligarh , Uttar Pradesh ) is a politician of the Indian National Congress . From October 28, 2012 to May 26, 2014, he was Indian Foreign Minister in the Manmohan Singh II cabinet .

biography

Kurshid was born into a family of politicians. His father Khurshed Alam Khan was a minister in the Indian government from the 1980s, governor of Goa from 1989 to 1991 and intermittently governor of Karnataka from 1991 to 1999. His maternal grandfather Zakir Hussain was Indian president from 1967 to 1969.

Khurshid studied at the Jesuit- run St. Xavier's High School in Patna , the Delhi Public School in Mathura Road, Delhi and at the Christian-run St. Stephen's College in Delhi. He then earned a Master of Arts (MA) in English and a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) in law from St Edmund Hall College, University of Oxford , England. Khurshid started his political career in the Indian National Congress under Indira Gandhi in the early 1980s. In June 1991 he was Deputy Minister for Trade and from January 1993 to June 1996 Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in the Government of India. After the Indian parliamentary elections in 2009 , he became Minister of State for Minority Affairs (until January 2011), then Minister for Water Resources from January to July 2011 and, after a cabinet reshuffle, Foreign Minister in October 2012. When the government changed on May 26, 2014, Sushma Swaraj was his successor.

Salman Khurshid is Muslim, married and has 3 sons and a daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Khurshid nostalgic over Patna. The Times of India, October 21, 2011, accessed July 7, 2013 .
  2. ^ Salman Khurshid - Introduction of a Modern Leader. Archived from the original on June 29, 2009 ; accessed on July 7, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b c Khurshid Salman. India.gov.in, accessed on July 7, 2013 (English, website of Lok Sabha).
personal data
SURNAME Khurshid, Salman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES सलमान खुर्शीद (hiS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Aligarh , Uttar Pradesh