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Updated August 7th, 2019 at 00:58 IST

Sushma Swaraj Passes Away: When foreign citizens thanked her for her alacrity as External Affairs Minister

Former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj breathed her last at the age of 67 here on Tuesday night

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Sushma Swaraj Passes Away: When foreign citizens thanked her for her alacrity as External Affairs Minister

Former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj breathed her last at the age of 67 here on Tuesday night. Swaraj was admitted to All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) following a deterioration in her health. Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan had accompanied her in the hospital.

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Sushma Swaraj within four years of her tenure as the External Affairs Minister was the 'Indian Ninja' or messiah to the people in trouble all over the world. Not just Indians, foreign citizens too thanked her for her alacrity in the rescue efforts.

PAKISTAN

Sushma Swaraj will be remembered for her alacrity in the rescue efforts in April 2015 when Indian Navy carried out by humanitarian gesture of evacuating 3 Pakistan nationals from Hodeida

YEMEN

In one of the largest rescue operations, she was at the helm of Operation Raahat, where 1,947 foreign nationals and 4,741 Indians were rescued by air and sea routes through
war-torn Yemen in April 2015

In April 2015, Sushma Swaraj rescued a woman Yemen (married to an Indian), who tweeted a photo of her 8-month-old baby and asked to be evacuated safely and said, “It is our duty towards our country and countrymen. God bless your child - our young citizen”

GERMANS

And a true testament to her help people from every country -- she was lauded by Germans and people from the United States for the rescue efforts during Yemen Crisis in April 2015

It was Sushma Swaraj who just within 4 years of her tenure as the External Affairs Minister rescued 90,000 Indians in distress from all over the world.

Union ministers Prahlad Patel, Rajnath Singh, Piyush Goyal and Nitin Gadkari were some of the top BJP leaders who rushed to the hospital following the news of Swaraj's demise.

Earlier today, the senior BJP leader had welcomed the revoking of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the move. "Thank you Prime Minister. Thank you very much. I was waiting to see this day in my lifetime," Swaraj had tweeted.

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Swaraj was appointed the foreign minister in the first term of Modi government in 2014. She opted out of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections citing health reasons. During her tenure, the BJP leader had been active and popular on Twitter reaching out to the Indian diaspora in distress for assistance

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Published August 7th, 2019 at 00:49 IST

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