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At a glance: Sushma Swaraj, India's first woman 'foreign minister'

New Delhi: Sushma Swaraj has taken over as India's first woman External Affairs Minister, in yet another first for the 62-year-old BJP leader.Apart from having the distinction of becoming the youngest cabinet minister in Haryana



Sushma was nominated by her party in 1999 to contest elections against Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi from Bellary constituency  in Karnataka.