Vidisha can never forgets its gem Sushma Swaraj

A leader who could sway crowds by her oratory in Hindi, Swaraj was among the few top politicians capable of speaking in English with equal ease. She was the youngest cabinet minister at 25 when she joined the Haryana government in 1977 and the first woman chief minister of Delhi.
Swaraj’s most notable political battle was the one against the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Bellary in 1999 Lok Sabha polls. She was her party’s nationalist woman counter to Gandhi, often attacked by the BJP for her Italian origins.