Sushma Swaraj Biography - Birth date, Achievements, Career, Family, Awards

Sushma Swaraj was born on 14 February 1952 in Ambala Cantt, Haryana. His father's name was Hardev Sharma and mother's name was Lakshmi Devi. His father was a prominent member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Sushma Swaraj died on 6 August 2019 (age 67 years) in New Delhi, Delhi, India. He reportedly suffered a heart attack in the evening after which he was taken to AIIMS Hospital where he was declared dead by the doctor.

He studied at Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantonment and graduated with majors in Sanskrit and Political Science. He studied law at Panjab University, Punjab. A state-level competition organized by the Language Department of Haryana won him the Best Hindi Speaker award for three consecutive years

Sushma Swaraj started her political career in 1970 with Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. And her husband was closely associated with Swaraj Kaushal's socialist leader George Fernandes which led to Sushma Swaraj becoming a member of George Fernandes's legal defense team in 1975. Sushma Swaraj served as a member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 1982 by winning the election of MLA for Haryana Legislative Assembly from Ambala Cantonment Assembly constituency and from 1987 to 1990 she was appointed to the same post. Sushma Swaraj was sworn in as a cabinet minister in the Janata Party government headed by then Chief Minister Devi Lal of Haryana government in July 19877 and at the age of just 27, she became the state president of the Janata Party of the Haryana government in 1979. . Sushma Swaraj was the Education Minister of the state of Haryana from 1987 to 1990 in the Bharatiya Janata Party-Lokdal coalition government. Swaraj was elected to the 11th Lok Sabha from South Delhi constituency in 1996 and with whom she served as the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting during the 13-day government of PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1996.

Sushma Swaraj was elected to the 12th Lok Sabha from South Delhi Parliamentary constituency in March 1998. And she was employed in this post from 19 March 1998 to 12 October 1998 and during this period she also started community radio in universities and other institutions. She returned to Parliament as a Rajya Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh in April 2000 and since September 2000 she was serving as the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting till January 2003. He won the 2009 election for the 15th Lok Sabha from Vidisha Lok Sabha constituency in Madhya Pradesh, with a margin of over 400,000 votes. On 21 December 2009, Sushma Swaraj became the Leader of the Opposition in the 15th Lok Sabha in place of Lal Krishna Advani and served in this post till May 2014. Swaraj served as the Indian Foreign Minister under the reins of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from May 2014 to May 2019 and she was responsible for implementing Narendra Modi's foreign policies. At the same time, she was the second woman foreign minister to hold the post after Indira Gandhi. Sushma Swaraj, as Union Health Minister, had established six All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Bhopal (MP), Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Jodhpur (Rajasthan), Patna (Bihar), Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Rishikesh (Uttarakhand). Sushma Swaraj In the year 1977, she became the youngest first female cabinet minister in the Haryana government at the age of 25, her credit as the first woman Chief Minister of BJP, Union Cabinet Minister, General Secretary, Spokesperson, Leader of Opposition and Foreign Minister. He was the first to have.

Sushma Swaraj was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2020 by the Government of India. He was also awarded the Civil Cross of the Order of Civil Merit by Spain on 19 February 2019. She is the first and only woman MP of the Indian Parliament to have been awarded the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award. In 2020, the Government of India changed the name of Foreign Service Institute after him to Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service. In 2020, the Indian government renamed the Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra after him as Sushma Swaraj Bhavan. Ambala city bus station is named after him in 2020.