SUSHMA SWARAJ

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SUSHMA SWARAJ

(14 February 1952 – 6 August 2019)

 

 

In the departure of the former Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, one of the tallest and strongest pillars of modern women power has fallen. She was a great woman face in politics. An eminent and towering stateswoman, she had dedicated herself to the service of people. Shushmaji – a versatile personality being a daring and challenge-savvy veteran leader, prolific and powerful orator, forcefully arguing lawyer, a ‘go-getter’ for her party,– all rolled into one - is no longer amongst us. Hers is an irreparable loss to our country and her party.

 

With her passing away, a great saga of inspiring intellectual patriotism besides her long, illustrious and industrious journey has come to an end. She can be easily rated as the second tallest woman leader of the country who reached peaks of name and fame after our former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Incidentally, Sushmaji was the only second woman to be the Indian Foreign Minister after the late PM. She was a popular national leader after the characteristically charismatic crowd puller Indira Gandhi.

 

She had many 'firsts' to her credit like - a multi-faceted woman incumbent, first female BJP Chief Minister, General Secretary, Leader of the Opposition, an easily-accessible Central Minister, the only female MP honoured with the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award, Delhi CM, Minister in Haryana state, and 7-time winner in Lok Sabha elections. At a time when women leaders were scarce and shying away from politics, she elegantly emerged as a frontline national leader donning different hats.

 

She was a volcano of zeal, ocean of knowledge, Tsunami of innovative ideas, icon of initiatives and topping it all, a symbol of simplicity.

 

As Foreign Minister, she became popular worldwide and maintained excellent rapport with her counterparts and other world leaders. She has left behind a legacy of an easily-accessible minister who readily extended her helping hands to the Indian Diaspora in distress with her revolutionary social media outreach. Several path-breaking measures such as the passport infrastructure expansion and enhanced engagement with the East were the highlights of her tenure as the External Affairs Minister.

 

Despite her failing health and retirement from active political life, she was eager and conscious to keep herself abreast and updated on the goings-on in the country and abroad. Even very recently she tweeted on the J&K issue. She was in fine mettle and kept herself informative till she was cruelly snatched away from our midst.

 

During her tenure as the External Affairs Minister, she had handled several strategically-sensitive issues including Indo-Pak and India-China relations. Her role in resolving the tricky and thorny Doklam standoff between the Indian and Chinese sides will always be remembered. Though known to be a tough fighter in the political battlefield, she was admired and respected across party lines.



Sushma-ji will always be remembered by the people of India as one of the greatest women leaders the country had ever produced, and also of course as  a great Mother, Sister and Daughter representing the Indian women power (Naari Shakti) and Bharat Mata!

 

 

R.SAMPATH

7/8/2019

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