Sushma Swaraj

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Sushma Swaraj ( Hindi सुषमा स्वराज Suṣamā Svarāj , pronunciation ? / I ; born February 14, 1952 in Ambala , Haryana ; † August 6, 2019 in New Delhi ) was an Indian politician ( BJP ). She held several ministerial offices in Haryana, was briefly Chief Minister of Delhi and for a long time a member of both houses of the Indian parliament ( Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha ). From 2014 to May 30, 2019, she was India's Foreign Minister . Audio file / audio sample

Life

Political career

Sushma Swaraj studied law at Panjab University in Chandigarh . She became politically active at an early age, first joining the Janata Party in 1975 and moving to the BJP after 1980.

In 1977 and again in 1987 she was elected to the parliament of the state of Haryana in the constituency 8-Ambala Cantoment , to which she was a member from 1977 to 1982 and 1987 to 1990. During both legislative periods she held ministerial offices in Haryana: 1977 to 1979 as Minister for Labor and Employment and 1987 to 1990 as Minister for Education, Food and Goods. From 1990 to 1996 she was a member of the Rajya Sabha , the upper house of the Indian parliament, and chaired various committees there.

In 1996 she was elected to the Lok Sabha - the lower house of the Indian parliament - for the constituency of South Delhi . She was able to maintain the constituency in the 1998 election . From May 16, 1996 to June 1, 1996 she was Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting in the short-lived first government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee . In the second Vajpayee government, which was formed in 1998 , she was again given this ministerial office, expanded to include responsibility for telecommunications, and served from March 19, 1998 to October 12, 1998.

In 1998 she switched to state politics and served as Chief Minister of Delhi from October 13 to December 3, 1998 . In the 1998 election in Delhi, Swaraj won the constituency 9-Hauz Khas but overall the election for the BJP was lost and a government of the Congress Party was then formed.

In April 2000 Swaraj was elected to the Rajya Sabha for the second time, and a short time later she was again Union Minister in the Vajpayee III cabinet (September 30, 2000 - January 29, 2003: Information and Broadcasting, January 29, 2003 - May 22, 2004: Health, family welfare and parliamentary affairs). In 2006 she was elected to the Rajya Sabha for the third time.

In the 2009 election for Lok Sabha , she won the 212-Vidisha constituency in Madhya Pradesh and was chairman of the opposition BJP in the Lok Sabha on December 21, 2009. In the following election in 2014 , she was able to win the aforementioned constituency again and served as Foreign Minister in the first Modi cabinet from May 27, 2014 to May 30, 2019 .

Sushma Swaraj also gained notoriety as a champion for women's rights, especially in the very traditional and male-dominated state of Haryana.

Private

Sushma Swaraj had been married to Swaraj Kaushal since 1975 , who was governor of the state of Mizoram from 1990 to 1993 and with whom they had a daughter.

In November 2016 it was announced that Swaraj was expected to undergo a kidney transplant . Her long-standing diabetes mellitus was given as the cause of the chronic kidney failure . The kidney transplant took place in December 2016, but Swaraj apparently did not recover properly from the procedure and its consequences and, for example, no longer stood as a candidate in the 2019 all-India election.

Sushma Swaraj passed away on August 6, 2019 in her home in Delhi. Cardiac arrest was given as the cause of death .

Web links

Commons : Sushma Swaraj  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anuj Pant: Sushma Swaraj, 67, Dies; Leaders Across Party Lines Pay Respects: Highlights. In: NDTV.com. August 7, 2019, accessed on August 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Sixteenth Lok Sabha: Members Bioprofile: Swaraj, Smt. Sushma. Retrieved on August 7, 2019 (English, biographies of current and former members of parliament on the Lok Sabha website).
  3. ↑ Rakesh Mohan Chaturvedi: Sushma Swaraj, former foreign minister & BJP stalwart, passes away. In: The Economic Times. August 7, 2019, accessed on August 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Election Results 2 Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on December 22, 2018 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  5. ↑ a b Sushma Swaraj: India's popular former foreign minister dies. In: BBC News. August 7, 2019, accessed on August 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Sushma Swaraj: India minister to get kidney transplant. In: BBC News . November 18, 2016, accessed November 18, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Swaraj, Sushma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES सुषमा स्वराज (HiS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician (BJP)
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Ambala , Haryana
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2019
Place of death New Delhi