As a fiery orator, compassionate leader and a fearless parliamentarian, Sushma Swaraj won herself admirers across the political spectrum
THAT WAS HOW Sushma Swaraj, Haryana’s labour and social welfare minister in 1977 (after the Emergency), described the way she and her husband, Swaraj Kaushal, became a part of the legal team that defended Janata Party leader George Fernanades in the Baroda dynamite conspiracy. All of 25, Sushma risked taking on prime minister Indira Gandhi. It was a time when many of Sushma’s age were struggling to find jobs.
As warm, friendly and humane Sushma was, it was her fearlessness that stood out among her sterling qualities. It came to the fore again when she took on another Mrs Gandhi in 1999 in Bellary. With Swaraj as her last name, and ‘swadeshi beti versus videshi bahu’ as her theme, Sushma, who had the gift of quickly picking up new languages, sported a jasmine gajra around the neat bun at the nape of her neck, and spoke in Kannada, at rallies and to individuals. She told them why she, and not Sonia Gandhi, should be elected to the Lok Sabha from the mineral-rich constituency. Sushma did not fear that she would lose; she gave it her everything. Though she lost to Sonia, the election linked her and the BJP to Karnataka for the first time.
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