{"id":314487,"date":"2019-08-06T18:09:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T18:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314487"},"modified":"2019-08-06T18:09:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T18:09:23","slug":"former-external-affairs-minister-sushma-swaraj-passes-away-at-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-external-affairs-minister-sushma-swaraj-passes-away-at-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj passes away at 67"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/sushma-swarajs-meghdoot-goes-missing-for-14-minutes-en-route-to-south-africa\/sushma-swarajj\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-299721\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-299721 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sushma-swarajj-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/sushma-swarajj-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/sushma-swarajj-313x420.jpg 313w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/sushma-swarajj.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Former External Affairs Minister and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj passed away at AIIMS in New Delhi on Tuesday. She was 67.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to reports Sushma Swaraj was admitted to AIIMS earlier today after she suffered a massive heart attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Swaraj was elected seven times as a member of parliament and three times as a member of the legislative assembly. She served as the Minister of External Affairs of India from 26 May 2014 to 30 May 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In her last tweet, Sushma Swaraj congratulated and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah about the government\u2019s move on Kashmir and said that she was waiting to see this day in her lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former External Affairs Minister and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj passed away at AIIMS in New Delhi on Tuesday. She was 67. According to reports Sushma Swaraj was admitted to AIIMS earlier today after she suffered a massive heart attack. Swaraj was elected seven times as a member of parliament and three times as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1379,892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314488,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314487\/revisions\/314488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}