BJP leader and former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj passes away

Sushma Swaraj, a veteran leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Minister of External Affairs in the Narendra Modi government in its first term, died on August 6, 2019, following a heart attack. She was 67. She breathed her last in New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), where she had been brought in a critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest.

 
Swaraj had tweeted earlier in the day thanking Prime Minister Modi and saying that she wanted to see Article 370 provisions scrapped in her lifetime. 

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