Here's Sushma Swaraj's prayer for the Modi Cabinet 2.0 as she concludes her journey as Minister of External Affairs

Following the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with 58 ministers on Thursday, former Minister of External Affairs in the NDA government, Sushma Swaraj took to Twitter to thank PM Modi, for giving her the opportunity to serve people of India. 

After the swearing-in ceremony got over, Swaraj posted a heartfelt message on Twitter, praying that the Modi government in its second term functions with glory.

"Prime Minister-ji -- as External Affairs Minister, you have given me opportunity in the last five years to serve the countrymen and Indians abroad and accorded me a lot of respect at personal level. I am grateful to you. I pray to God that our government functions gloriously," she said in a tweet in Hindi.

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The 66-year-old leader leaves a legacy of an easily-accessible external affairs minister who helped Indian diaspora in distress with her quick response on Twitter to requests for help. Swaraj had opted out of fighting the Lok Sabha elections due to health reasons. She served her fourth term in the House and has long been one of BJP's most powerful woman representative. 

Her political career started in the year 1977 when she became a member of the Haryana State Legislative Assembly and a Cabinet Minister in Haryana at the age of 25. She went onto become the President of Janata Party in Haryana in 1979 when she was 27.

In the year 2014, she was honoured with the "Outstanding Parliamentarian Award” becoming India’s first woman MP to be honoured with this award. In 2016, Foreign Policy magazine named her as one of its "global thinkers", in a list which also included the likes of Angela Merkel, Melinda Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg. 

A lawyer by profession, she obtained her degree in Law from the Department of Laws, Punjab University, Chandigarh. 

On Thursday, some of the key ministers in the previous Modi government, including Swaraj, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Maneka Gandhi, Radha Mohan Singh and Jayant Sinha were not made part of the new dispensation.

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(With ANI inputs)