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Sushma Swaraj
Swaraj in 2017
Minister of External Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 May 2014
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
Preceded by
Salman Khurshid
Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs
In office
26 May 2014 – 7 January 2016
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
Preceded by
Vayalar Ravi
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha
In office
21 December 2009 – 26 May 2014
Preceded by
L. K. Advani
Succeeded by
vacant
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
In office
29 January 2003 – 22 May 2004
Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by
Pramod Mahajan
Succeeded by
Ghulam Nabi Azad
Minister of Health and Family Welfare
In office
29 January 2003 – 22 May 2004
Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by
C. P. Thakur
Succeeded by
Anbumani Ramadoss
Minister of Information and Broadcasting
In office
30 September 2000 – 29 January 2003
Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by
Arun Jaitley
Succeeded by
Ravi Shankar Prasad
Chief Minister of Delhi
In office
13 October 1998 – 3 December 1998
Governor
Vijai Kapoor
Preceded by
Sahib Singh Verma
Succeeded by
Sheila Dikshit
Member of Parliament
from Vidisha
Incumbent
Assumed office
13 May 2009
Preceded by
Rampal Singh
Member of Parliament
from South Delhi
In office
7 May 1996 – 3 October 1999
Preceded by
Madan Lal Khurana
Succeeded by
Vijay Kumar Malhotra
Personal details
Born
Sushma Sharma
(1952-02-14) 14 February 1952 (age 65)
Ambala Cantonment, Punjab, India
(now in Haryana, India)
Political party
Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)
Swaraj Kaushal
Alma mater
Sanatan Dharma College
Panjab University, Chandigarh
Sushma Swaraj ( pronunciation (help·info)) (born 14 February 1952[1]) is an Indian politician, former Supreme Court lawyer and the current Minister of External Affairs of India, in office since 26 May 2014. A leader of Bharatiya Janata Party, Swaraj is the second woman to be India's Minister of External Affairs, after Indira Gandhi. She has been elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. At the age of 25 in 1977, she became the youngest cabinet minister of north Indian state of Haryana. She also served as 5th Chief Minister of Delhi for a brief term in 1998.[2]
In the 2014 Indian general election, she won the Vidisha constituency in Madhya Pradesh for a second term, retaining her seat by a margin of over 400,000 votes.[3] She became the External Affairs Minister in the union cabinet on 26 May 2014. Swaraj was called India's 'best-loved politician' by the US daily Wall Street Journal.[4][5]
Contents
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1 Early life and education
2 Career
3 Early political career
4 State-level politics
4.1 Chief Minister of Delhi
5 National-level politics
5.1 Union Minister I&B & Telecommunications
5.2 Minister for Information and Broadcasting
5.3 Union Health Minister
5.4 Leader of Opposition, 15th Lok Sabha
5.5 External Affairs Minister
6 Distinctions and records
7 Personal life
8 Controversy
9 Positions held
10 See also
11 References
12 External links
Early life and education[edit]
Sushma Swaraj (née Sushma Sharma)[6] was born at Ambala Cantt, Haryana[7] on 14 February 1952 to Hardev Sharma & Shrimati Laxmi Devi.[8][9] Her father was a prominent Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh member. Her parents hailed from Dharampura area of Lahore, Pakistan.[10] She was educated at Sanatan Dharma College in Ambala Cantonment and earned a bachelor's degree with majors in Sanskrit and Political Science.[11] She studied law at Punjab University, Chandigarh.[1][11][12] A state-level competition held by the Language Department of Haryana saw her winning the best Hindi Speaker award for three consecutive years.[8]
Career[edit]
In 1973, Swaraj started practice as an advocate in the Supreme Court of India.[1][11]
Early political career[edit]
Swaraj began her political career with Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad in the 1970s. Her husband, Swaraj Kaushal, was closely associated with the socialist leader George Fernandes and Sushma Swaraj became a part of George Fernandes's legal defence team in 1975. She actively participated in Jayaprakash Narayan's Total Revolution Movement. After the Emergency, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Later, she became a national leader of the BJP.[13]
State-level politics[edit]
She was a member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly from 1977 to 1982, acquiring the Ambala Cantonment assembly seat at the age of 25, and then again from 1987 to 1990.[14] In July 1977, she was sworn in as a Cabinet Minister in the Janata Party Government headed by then Chief Minister Devi Lal. She became State President of Janata Party (Haryana) in 1979, at the age of 27 years. She was Education Minister of Haryana state in the Bharatiya Janata Party–Lok Dal coalition government during the period of 1987 to 1990.[11]
Chief Minister of Delhi[edit]
Main article: Sushma Swaraj ministry (1998)
After a tenure in national level politics, in October 1998 she resigned from the Union Cabinet to take over as the first female Chief Minister of Delhi. However, the BJP had lost the Assembly elections because of rising prices and inflation.[citation needed] She resigned from her Assembly seat and returned to national politics.
National-level politics[edit]
In April 1990, she was elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha and remained there until she was elected to the 11th Lok Sabha from South Delhi constituency in 1996.
Swaraj was elected to the 11th Lok Sabha from South Delhi constituency in April 1996 elections. She was Union Cabinet Minister for Information and Broadcasting during the 13-day government of PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1996.[citation needed]
Union Minister I&B & Telecommunications[edit]
She was re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha from South Delhi Parliamentary constituency for a second term in March 1998. Under the second PM Vajpayee Government, she was sworn in as Union Cabinet Minister for Information and Broadcasting with additional charge of the Ministry of Telecommunications from 19 March 1998 to 12 October 1998. Her most notable decision during this period was to declare film production as an industry, which made the Indian film industry eligible for bank finance. Prior to this, the film industry was heavily financed by the underworld on high rate of interest. This one decision liberated film industry from the clutches of the underworld.[citation needed] She also started community radio at universities and other institutions.[citation needed]
In September 1999, BJP nominated Swaraj to contest against the Congress party's national President Sonia Gandhi in the 13th Lok Sabha election, from the Bellary constituency in Karnataka, which had always been retained by Congress politicians since the first Indian general election in 1951–52. During her campaign, she addressed public meetings in the local Kannada language. She secured 358,000 votes in just 12 days of her election campaign. However, she lost the election by a 7% margin.[15]
Minister for Information and Broadcasting[edit]
She returned to Parliament in April 2000 as a Rajya Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh. She was reallocated to Uttrakhand when the new state was carved out of Uttar Pradesh on 9 November 2000.[16] She was inducted into the Union Cabinet as Minister for Information and Broadcasting, a position she held from September 2000 until January 2003.[citation needed]
Union Health Minister[edit]
She was Minister of Health, Family Welfare and Parliamentary Affairs from January 2003 until May 2004, when the National Democratic Alliance Government lost the general election.
As Union Health Minister, she set up six All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Bhopal (MP), Bhubaneshwar (Odisha), Jodhpur (Rajasthan), Patna (Bihar), Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Rishikesh (Uttrakhand).[citation needed]
Swaraj was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha for third term in April 2006 from Madhya Pradesh state. She served as the Deputy leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha till April 2009.
Leader of Opposition, 15th Lok Sabha[edit]
She won the 2009 election for the 15th Lok Sabha from the Vidisha Lok Sabha constituency in Madhya Pradesh by the highest margin of over 400,000 votes. Sushma Swaraj became Leader of Opposition in the 15th Lok Sabha in place of Lal Krishna Advani on 21 December 2009 and retained this position till May 2014 when in Indian general election, 2014 her party got a major victory.[17][18][19][20]
External Affairs Minister[edit]
Main article: Sushma Swaraj's tenure as External Affairs Minister
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif greeting Swaraj in the Indian style
.
Swaraj has been serving as the Indian External Affairs Minister under Prime Minister Narendra Modi since May 2014, responsible for implementing the foreign policy of Narendra Modi. She is only the second woman to hold this position after Indira Gandhi.[21][22]
Distinctions and records[edit]
In 1977, she became the youngest ever Cabinet Minister in the country at 25 years of age.[citation needed] In 1979, she became State President of Janata Party, Haryana State at the young age of 27. Sushma Swaraj was the first female Spokesperson of a national political party in India. She has many firsts to her credit as BJPs first female Chief Minister, Union Cabinet Minister, general secretary, Spokesperson, Leader of Opposition and Minister of External Affairs.[citation needed] She is the Indian Parliament's first and the only female MP honoured with the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award. She has contested 11 direct elections from four states. She has served as the President of the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan in Haryana for four years.[8]
Personal life[edit]
During the times of Emergency, on 13 July 1975, Sushma Swaraj married Swaraj Kaushal, a peer and fellow advocate at the Supreme Court of India.[citation needed] The Emergency movement brought together the couple, who then teamed up for the defence of the socialist leader George Fernandes.
Swaraj Kaushal is now a senior advocate of Supreme Court of India and a criminal lawyer who served as Governor of Mizoram from 1990 to 1993. He was a member of parliament from 1998 to 2004.[23]
The couple have a daughter, Bansuri, who is a graduate from Oxford University and a Barrister at Law from Inner Temple.[24][25]
Sushma Swaraj's sister Vandana Sharma is an associate professor of political science in a government college for girls in Haryana.[26]
Swaraj's brother Dr. Gulshan Sharma is an Ayurveda doctor based in Ambala.[27]
On 10 December she underwent for a kidney transplant at AIIMS, with the organ being harvested from a living unrelated donor. The surgery was successful.[28]
Controversy[edit]
Swaraj, while being the external affairs minister of the NDA government, issued an NOC against a specific query raised by the UK government about the Indo-UK bilateral relationship if UK granted permission to Lalit Modi, an Indian fugitive in a cricket scandal who had been staying in Britain since 2010, to attend his wife's surgery in Portugal.She conveyed to the British High Commissioner that they should examine Modi's request as per their rules and wrote "if the British government chooses to give travel documents to Lalit Modi -– that will not spoil our bilateral relations".[29] However, some people[who?] mentioned this incident as Swaraj helping Lalit Modi in the travel visa process.
[30][31][32]
On 12 August 2015, leader of Indian National Congress, Mallikarjun Kharge, moved an Adjournment Motion in the lower house seeking resignation of Sushma Swaraj due to her alleged conduct in this regard. Initially, the motion was rejected by the Speaker, but was accepted on Swaraj's insistence. Intervening in the motion, Swaraj clarified that Lalit Modi's right of residency was not cancelled since the Enforcement Directorate did not file an extradition request. The Adjournment Motion was subsequently rejected with voice vote.
Positions held[edit]
1977–82 Elected as Member, Haryana Legislative Assembly.[11]
1977–79 Cabinet Minister, Labour and Employment, Government of Haryana.[11]
1987–90 Elected as Member, Haryana Legislative Assembly.[11]
1987–90 Cabinet Minister, Education, Food and Civil Supplies, Government of Haryana.[11]
1990–96 Elected to Rajya Sabha (1st term)
1996–97 [15 May 1996 – 4 December 1997] Member, Eleventh Lok Sabha (2nd term).
1996 [16 May – 1 June] – Union Cabinet Minister, Information and Broadcasting.[11]
1998–99 [10 March 1998 – 26 April 1999] Member, Twelfth Lok Sabha (3rd term).
1998 [19 March – 12 October] Union Cabinet Minister, Information and Broadcasting and Telecommunications (Additional charge).
1998 [13 October – 3 December] Chief Minister of Delhi.
1998 [November] – Elected from Hauz Khas Assembly constituency of Delhi Assembly. Resigned from Delhi Assembly and retained Lok Sabha seat.
2000–06 Member, Rajya Sabha (4th term).[9]
2000–03 [30 September 2000 – 29 January 2003] Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
2003–04 [29 January 2003 – 22 May 2004] Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.
2006–09 [April 2006 -] Member, Rajya Sabha (5th term).[33]
2009–14 [16 May 2009 – 18 May 2014] Member, 15th Lok Sabha (6th term).[11]
2009-09 [3 June 2009 – 21 December 2009] Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.[11]
2009–14 [21 December 2009 – 18 May 2014] Leader of the Opposition and replaced Lal Krishna Advani.
2014–present [26 May 2014–] Member, 16th Lok Sabha (7th term)
2014–present [26 May 2014–] External Affairs Minister in the Union of India
See also[edit]
List of foreign ministers in 2017
List of current foreign ministers
References[edit]
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"Hello Stranger"
Single by Barbara Lewis
from the album Hello Stranger
B-side
"Think a Little Sugar"
Released
March 1963
Format
7" single
Recorded
January 1963
Genre
R&B
Length
2:42
Label
Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
Barbara Lewis
Producer(s)
Ollie McLaughlin
Barbara Lewis singles chronology
"My Mama Told Me"
(1962) "Hello Stranger"
(1963) "Straighten Up Your Heart"
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"My Mama Told Me"
(1962) "Hello Stranger"
(1963) "Straighten Up Your Heart"
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"Hello Stranger" is a 1963 hit single by Barbara Lewis, which spent two weeks at number one on the R&B singles chart in Billboard, crossing over to #3 Pop.[1]
Contents
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1 Original version
2 Other versions
3 In Film
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Original version[edit]
"Hello Stranger" was written by Barbara Lewis herself, who was originally inspired to write a song with that title while working gigs in Detroit with her musician father: “I would make the circuit with my dad and people would yell out: ‘Hey stranger, hello stranger, it’s been a long time’". The song is notable because its title comprises the first two words of the lyrics but is never at any point repeated throughout the rest of the song.
Lewis recorded "Hello Stranger" at Chess Studios in Chicago in January 1963. The track's producer Ollie McLaughlin recruited the Dells to provide the background vocals. The arrangement by Riley Hampton - then working with Etta James - featured a signature organ riff provided by keyboardist John Young. The track was completed after thirteen takes. Lewis would recall that, on hearing the playback of the finished track, Dells member Chuck Barksdale "kept jumping up and down and saying, ‘It’s a hit, it’s a hit.’...I didn’t really know. It was all new to me.”
McLaughlin flew to New York City to pitch "Hello Stranger" to Atlantic Records, who had picked up Lewis' previous two singles for national release. Atlantic optioned "Hello Stranger" but then had second thoughts on the viability of releasing such an unusual track. The ascendancy of "Our Day Will Come" by Ruby & the Romantics to the top of the Pop and R&B charts in March 1963 motivated Atlantic to release "Hello Stranger" that month;[2] entering the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1963, the track took another month to reach the Top 40. Impelled by its #1 status in St. Louis, MO, it entered the Billboard Top Ten that June for a five-week stay.
Other versions[edit]
In 1966, Ollie McLaughlin had the group the Capitols - who he discovered at a local dance headlined by Barbara Lewis - record "Hello Stranger" to be the B-side of their #7 hit "Cool Jerk".
Also in 1966, an instrumental version was released as an alternative b-side to Deon Jackson's "Love Makes The World Go Round" on Carla 2526. Although it is billed as Deon Jackson it is rumoured to be Riley Hampton who was the original arranger of the song in 1963.
"Hello Stranger" was also a 1969 single release by Darius before returning to the charts in 1973 when it became a regional hit for Fire & Rain, a folk rock duo comprising veteran Tucson musician Manny Freiser and Patti McCarron, Freiser's then-wife who sang lead; their version, which featured Michael Omartian on keyboards, was arranged by Ben Benay who also played guitar. Benay had also been guitarist on the version of "Hello Stranger" by Darius.
Manny Freiser would recall: "Mercury [Records] released "Hello Stranger" as a single against our wishes. It became a legitimate hit at easy listening radio...Mercury then tried to cross it over to Top-40 radio...We started picking up major markets, mostly in the southeast...The single precariously "bubbled under the Hot 100" on Billboard's charts in spring '73: #106 one week, #105 the next, and so on" entering the Billboard Hot 100 that June at #100 where it remained for three weeks and then dropped off the charts. Freiser - "Although it had sold 70,000+ copies, 'Hello Stranger' had basically been a 'turntable hit' at Top 40 radio -- one that got played a lot [sic], but didn't break. It thus became Billboard Magazine's lowest-ranked Hot 100 single of 1973, ranking #573 out of 573 singles that made the Hot 100."
In October 1976, studio group New York Rubber Rock Band recorded a dance version of "Hello Stranger" for the Brooklyn-based Henry Street Records; Colleen Heather was the vocalist on this version which reached #31 on the Dance charts.[3]
The most successful incarnation of "Hello Stranger" since the Lewis original has been the Yvonne Elliman version produced by Freddie Perren for Elliman's 1977 Love Me album; both Elliman and Perren deliberately sought to capture the sound of the original. "Hello Stranger" was released as the follow-up single to Elliman's #14 hit "Love Me" and was similarly successful on the Pop charts reaching #15; Elliman's "Hello Stranger" also charted R&B at #57 and was most successful on the Easy Listening chart where it was #1 for four weeks. [1]
Elliman's "Hello Stranger" was also released as a single in the UK; despite the precedent "Love Me" having reached #6 UK "Hello Stranger" was much less successful reaching #26. In the UK "Hello Stranger" did not have the cachet of being the remake of a "golden oldie" as the Barbara Lewis original was overlooked both in its 1963 UK release on London Records and in a 1968 reissue on Atlantic with Lewis' hit "Baby I'm Yours" on the flip side. Elkie Brooks' first single, released in 1964, had featured a version of "Hello Stranger" although that single's A-side had been Brooks' cover of another US R&B hit: Etta James' "Something's Got a Hold on Me" (not a chart item for Brooks).
The Capitols' version of "Hello Stranger" was also issued in the UK as the B-side of "Cool Jerk" three times: in 1966, 1969 and 1971 (the last two reissues credited to the Three Caps) with the single falling short of the charts each time.
Yvonne Elliman did take "Hello Stranger" into the Top 20 in the Netherlands (#20) and also New Zealand (#12). In the US, Elliman's version went to number one on the Easy Listening chart and number fifteen on the Billboard Hot 100.[4]
In 1985, Carrie Lucas' remake of "Hello Stranger" - which featured the Whispers - was a Top 20 R&B hit.
The Supremes & The Four Tops recorded a version for the album Dynamite! in 1971.
Other versions of the song have been recorded by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas for their Heat Wave album, by Queen Latifah in 2004 for her The Dana Owens Album, by Ebony Alleyne for her album Never Look Back (recorded in 2003/ released in 2007), by Diane Marino (featuring saxophonist Wycliffe Gordon) for her 2008 '60s covers album Just Groovin', by Julia Holter for her 2013 album Loud City Song, and by Samantha Fish on her 2017 album Chills & Fever.
Single Versions
Artist
Year
Recording info
Chart position
Barbara Lewis
1963
1963
1968 producer: Ollie McLaughlin (album Hello Stranger)
Atlantic 2184
HLK 9724
Atlantic 584 153
US Pop #3/ R&B #1 (2 wks)
UK did not chart
UK did not chart
Elkie Brooks 1964 Decca F 11928/ producer: Ian Samwell UK B-side of "Something's Got a Hold on Me" (did not chart)
The Capitols
1966
1966
1969
1971 producer: Ollie McLaughlin (album Dance the Cool Jerk)
Karen 1524
Atlantic 584 004
Atlantic 584 251 credited to The Three Caps
Atlantic 2091105 credited to The Three Caps
US B-side to "Cool Jerk" (#7)
UK B-side to "Cool Jerk" (did not chart)
UK B-side to "Cool Jerk" (did not chart)
UK B-side to "Cool Jerk" (did not chart)
Darius 1969 Chartmaker 419/ producers: Pat Glasser & Butch Parker US did not chart
Fire & Rain 1973 producer: Joe Saraceno (album Fire & Rain)
Mercury 73373 US Pop #100 Easy Listening #24
New York Rubber Rock Band
feat. Colleen Heather 1976 producers: Bob Motta & Vince Traina
HS 10002 US Dance #31
Yvonne Elliman 1977 producer: Freddie Perren (album Love Me)
RSO 871 US Pop #15/ R&B #57/ Easy Listening #1 (4 wks)
UK (RSO 2090 235) #26/ Canada #13/ Netherlands #20/ New Zealand #12
Carrie Lucas 1985 producers: Bill Simmons & Jeffery Cooper
(album Horsin' Around)
Constellation MCA 23589 US R&B #20
In Film[edit]
The 2016 American drama film Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins, features "Hello Stranger" as the song that reunites the main character with his childhood first love.
See also[edit]
List of number-one R&B singles of 1963 (U.S.)
List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1977 (U.S.)
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 347.
Jump up ^ Carson, David A. (2005). Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll (1st paperback ed.). Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press. p. 25. ISBN 0-472-11503-0.
Jump up ^ Billboard 16 October 1976 p. 36
Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 86.
External links[edit]
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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