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Sushma Swaraj



Sushma Swaraj is one of the four women politicians who dominate the Indian politics currently. Apart from Swaraj, the other three women in this quartet are: Ex-President Pratibha Patil, UPA chief Sonia Gandhi and Ex-Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar. Swaraj, BJP MP from Vidisha, is the leader of the opposition in the 15th Lok Sabha. Swaraj is one of the few Indian politicians who are on social networking site Twitter. Recently, Swaraj's tweet of accepting PM Manmohan Singh's explanation on the CVC fiasco created a kind of flutter in BJP. Born in Haryana, Sushma began her political career as a student leader and became a member of the Haryana assembly for the first time in 1977. In 1980, Swaraj joined the BJP and during the Ram temple movement, along with Uma Bharti, became the face of women power in the BJP. In 1990, she was elected to the Rajya Sabha and in 1996, she became a Lok Sabha member, from South Delhi. In 1998, Swaraj quit the Union Cabinet of AB Vajpayee and became the first woman chief minister of Delhi. After the defeat of BJP at the hands of Sheila Dikshit in the Delhi assembly elections, Swaraj returned to national politics. Swaraj, along with other BJP leaders like Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh, is considered the future of the party in the post AB Vajpayee and LK Advani era. Swaraj has been serving as the Indian External Affairs Minister under Prime Minister Narendra Modi since May 2014 and has been actively responsible in implementing the foreign policy of Narendra Modi. She is only the second woman to hold this position after Indira Gandhi.

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