Sushma Swaraj

Sushma Swaraj  () (14 February 1952 – 6 August 2019) was an Indian politician and lawyer. She was a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party.

Swaraj was the Minister of External Affairs of India in the first Narendra Modi government (2014 – 2019). She was the second woman to hold the office, after Indira Gandhi.

She was elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly.

At the age of 25 in 1977, she became the youngest cabinet minister of Indian state of Haryana. She also served as 5th Chief Minister of Delhi for a short duration in 1998.

On 6 August 2019, Swaraj died of a heart attack at a hospital in New Delhi, aged 67.https://www.india.com/news/india/romas-are-indias-children-sushma-swaraj-943499/

She said in Februrary 2016, that the Romani people are children from India.

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