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Updated August 7th, 2019 at 13:54 IST

Sushma Swaraj's Husband Swaraj Kaushal's 2018 'Madam, I'm running behind you for 46 years' letter captures a lifetime of public service

Former EAM and one of the most articulate political leaders of India, Sushma Swaraj passed away on Tuesday at AIIMS, Delhi after suffering a cardiac arrest at the age of 67.

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Former EAM and one of the most articulate political leaders of India, Sushma Swaraj passed away on Tuesday at AIIMS, Delhi after suffering a cardiac arrest at the age of 67. She was not only a prominent face of the Bharatiya Janata Party whose contributions have been valuable to the growth and development of the party, a charming who managed a perfect work-life balance. While the nation mourns the death of Sushma Swaraj, here is an instance from her personal life which is going viral on social media recently.

In a series of tweets from November 2018 which is grabbing the attention on social media, Sushma Swaraj's husband Swaraj Kaushal had welcomed her decision to not contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The picture below shows the tweets posted by Sushma Swaraj's husband after the four-time Lok Sabha MP and three-time Rajya Sabha MP announced that she will not contest the elections citing her bad health.

Following her announcement, when messages were poured in from all walks of life, it was her husband Swaraj Kaushal's reaction that caught all the attention. Taking to Twitter he had thanked her for not contesting any more elections, adding that he "remember there came a time when even Milkha Singh stopped running".

In another tweet, he said that he has been behind her for the last 46 years. In a lighter note, he added that he is no longer 19-year-old to run more. In the tweets, he also shared her lifetime of work as a political leader. 

Read the tweets here:

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The former EAM had announced that she will not be contesting the elections prior to the 2019 polls. 

She started her political life with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the RSS' student wing, and later joined the BJP. She was the Information and Broadcasting Minister in the 13-day Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 1996 and got the Cabinet portfolio again after he led the BJP to power in 1998.

In the first Modi government, she was appointed as the External Affairs Minister - a portfolio she redefined owing to her hands-on approach wherein she would often respond to citizens' queries on Twitter. She was not part of the Modi government this time and S Jaishankar replaced her as the External Affairs Minister. She left behind a legacy of an easily-accessible minister who helped the diaspora in distress with her revolutionary social media outreach.

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Published August 7th, 2019 at 13:54 IST

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