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F4U Editorial Desk • Updated October 15, 2026 • 3 min read

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Quick Info

Date of birth14 February 1952

Age67 Years (at time of death)

BirthplaceAmbala Cantonment, Punjab (Now in Haryana)

ProfessionPolitician

NationalityIndian

Marital statusMarried (at the time of death)

SpouseSwaraj Kaushal

FamilyDaughter - Bansuri Swaraj

Net worth17.55 Crores INR (as in 2014)

Sushma Swaraj Biography

Sushma Swaraj was a senior Indian politician and a prominent leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party who served in multiple ministerial roles including as the

Early life and background

Sushma Swaraj was born on 14 February 1952 in Ambala Cantonment, then part of Punjab and now in Haryana. She grew up in a family that had moved to India after partition. She completed a Bachelor of Arts with majors in Sanskrit and Political Science from Sanatan Dharma College in Ambala Cantonment and later earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Career

Swaraj entered public life through student politics with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad in 1970. After the Emergency she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and rose quickly through party ranks to become a national leader. At age 25 she became a cabinet minister in the Haryana state government, and in 1979 she was appointed state president of the Janata Party in Haryana.

She served as a member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly from 1977 to 1982 and later held the state portfolio of Education in the BJP–Lok Dal coalition from 1987 to 1990. In April 1990 she was elected to the Rajya Sabha. During Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s governments she held the Information and Broadcasting ministry, at times with additional charge of Telecommunications, and in 1998 she became the first woman Chief Minister of Delhi, a tenure that lasted 52 days.

Swaraj’s national roles expanded through the 2000s. She served as Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting from 2000 to 2003 and was appointed Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs from January 2003 to May 2004. In 2004 she received the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award, the only female MP to do so that year.

In the 2009 general election she won the Vidisha Lok Sabha seat from Madhya Pradesh by a very large margin and became the Leader of the Opposition in the 15th Lok Sabha, the first woman to hold that role. Following the 2014 election, she was appointed Minister of External Affairs in Narendra Modi’s cabinet and served in that position from May 2014 to May 2019. As foreign minister she became widely known for a hands-on, responsive approach to consular matters and for using social media to assist citizens abroad.

Public profile

Swaraj combined oratory and administrative roles throughout a long political career. She was recognised for parliamentary speaking with awards such as the Best Speaker Award in the Haryana Assembly and later the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award in 2004. The Wall Street Journal described her as a highly popular public figure in 2017. In diplomatic recognition, the Spanish government awarded her the Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit in February 2019 for her role in assisting Spanish citizens during the 2015 Nepal earthquake.

Her public persona was shaped by accessible, direct engagement, notably through social media, where she became among the most followed Indian women politicians; by July 2019 she had over 13.2 million followers on Twitter.

Personal life

Sushma Swaraj married Swaraj Kaushal, an advocate who later served as Governor of Mizoram, on 13 July 1975. The couple had one daughter, Bansuri Swaraj, who is an advocate. Her parents were Hardev Sharma, an RSS member, and Laxmi Devi. She came from a Hindu Brahmin family and was a vegetarian. Her listed hobbies included performing fine arts, writing poetry, and singing.

Later years and death

Swaraj underwent a kidney transplant and in 2019 decided not to contest the general elections or continue as External Affairs Minister in order to focus on her health. On 6 August 2019 she suffered a cardiac arrest at her Delhi residence and was taken to AIIMS, New Delhi, where she died at 10:50 PM. Her funeral was held with full state honours and was attended by leaders across the political spectrum.

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Posthumously, Sushma Swaraj was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2020. Her legacy is remembered for a long record of public service across state and central government portfolios, a direct style of public engagement, and several firsts for women in Indian politics.

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Recent Work

Minister of External Affairs

Served as India’s Minister of External Affairs in Narendra Modi's cabinet.

2014–2019
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Career Highlights

  1. Began political career with ABVP in 1970 and later became a national leader of the BJP
  2. Cabinet Minister in Haryana government at age 25
  3. First woman Chief Minister of Delhi (1998)
  4. Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and later Health and Family Welfare
  5. Elected MP from Vidisha in 2009 and became Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha
  6. Minister of External Affairs from May 2014 to May 2019
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Net Worth

17.55 Crores INR (as in 2014)

Figures are editorial estimates based on publicly available reporting and may change as new information emerges.

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