Sushma Swaraj: BA, LLB
Sushma Swaraj is the new foreign minister of India. Here we are giving you some interesting facts about India's news external affairs minister.
Sushma also has the distinction of becoming the youngest minister in India when she had joined Haryana government in 1977 at the age of 25 as education minister.
Sushma Swaraj was the leader of opposition in 15th Lok Sabha.
In 2009 Lok Sabha elections, she was elected from Vidisha Lok Sabha constituency in Madhya Pradesh.
In 2014 Lok Sabha elections, she has been elected once again from the same Lok Sabha constituency.
In 1979, she became the state president of the BJP in Haryana. She was also the first woman spokesperson for any political party in India and won the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award.
Swaraj, a law graduate who practised in the Supreme Court, has been elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly.
She began her political career with RSS student wing ABVP in the 1970s. Member of the Haryana Assembly from 1977 to 1982 from Ambala Cantonment, she was sworn in as a Cabinet Minister in the Devi Lal government.
She was Cabinet Minister for Information and Broadcasting during the 13-day Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government in 1996.
She resigned from the Cabinet in the next Vajpayee regime to take over as the first woman Chief Minister of Delhi in October 1998.
She has become an epitome of success and strength for almost every woman of this country. Sushma's strong oration skills and firebrand personality has been giving the opposition a tough time in and outside parliament.
Born in Ambala, Haryana in 1953 Sushma had politics running in her blood. Her father was a prominent RSS member.
