Sushma Swaraj Born in an Ordinary Family was an Example of Courage – From Lawyer to Foreign Minister
Two days ago, while the BJP was happy to remove Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir, now the entire party has lost its glory. The BJP lost a brilliant personality, a well-spoken sociable leader to a qualified administrator. Sushma Swaraj’s funding is an incomplete loss for the party. She was the face of the BJP who always helped to move the party forward and never faced challenges. Her rise in politics began with the rise of the party.
During the time of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Bajpai, She left the post of Union Minister and from 2009 to 2014 She played the role of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and then assumed the post of Foreign Minister in the Narendra Modi government. She became a member of the Lok Sabha four times and Rajya Sabha three times. She refused to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections due to poor health.
Even at the age of 67, she was ready to face all kinds of challenges. Her courage took the party to a new level. She had staged a ballot in 1999 against Bellary in Karnataka against Sonia Gandhi. Although there was a strong hold of the Congress, due to which they had to face defeat but their difference of votes was only 55,000. She may not have won the election but by her behavior in Karnataka, it has definitely made a place in the heart of the people.
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While being the foreign minister, She helped the Narendra Modi government implement various types of foreign policies. Their aim was to connect Indians with the whole world. When Pakistan was failing to understand the signs of India, She warned Pakistan with a clear warning that “talk and terrorism cannot go together.” Surgical strike, Air strike and Doklam with China At the time of the suit, She handled the situation with much diplomacy.
She has always supported the Indian diaspora in times of need, due to which she has often been praised. She was the one who wiped the distance between the ministry and the citizens. It was his habit to take care of every migrant. Apart from this, she also spread the propagation of Hindi by going to other countries. She was made the Chief Minister of Delhi for two months in 1998. The party had a lot of challenges in the assembly elections at that time, which they accepted very easily. She again entered national politics when the BJP lost the election.
When UPA was in government, it was playing the role of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha. When she spoke, even the biggest BJP leaders calmed down and helped build momentum against the Congress. After 2004, when the parliamentary elections were to be held and the Congress was ready to lead the UPA, she had said that “If a Congress leader of foreign origin (Sonia Gandhi) becomes Prime Minister, I will get my head shaved.” Immersed in the ideology of, sharp-minded leader Sushma Swaraj understood the political stakes well.
She was made a cabinet minister in Haryana when she was just 25 years old. She was the youngest minister in that cabinet of Haryana. Swaraj won her first election in 1977 when she was the leader of the Janata Party. She was given the responsibility of two posts, the first MLA and the Ministry of Labor and Industry (1977–79) and the Education, Food and Civil Supplies (1987–90). Even after being a BJP leader, she still tried to move forward and came out as a member of Rajya Sabha in 1990.
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