Swaraj Kaushal dies: Bansuri Swaraj’s emotional post for father — ‘Reunited with mother’

After Kaushal complained of chest pain Thursday afternoon, he was rushed to AIIMS where doctors declared him dead, a BJP leader said. Kaushal will be cremated at Lodhi Road crematorium, the leader added.

Who was Swaraj Kaushal?

Kaushal, a socialist, had several feathers in his cap, though he generally avoided the limelight. He was designated as a senior advocate in the Supreme Court at just 34, and became the youngest person to hold the post of governor when he was made the governor of Mizoram at just 37 in 1990, and stayed in the post till 1993.

Former Union Minister for external Affairs late Sushma Swaraj with her husband Swaraj Kaushal at residence in Dhawandeep building on the Jantar Mantar road in New Delhi (Express Photo by Tashi Tobgyal)

Born in 1952 in Solan in present-day Himachal Pradesh, Kaushal went to school in Chandigarh and studied law at Panjab University, Chandigarh. He married Sushma Swaraj, who was to later become Leader of the Opposition and Minister of External Affairs, in 1975.

Swaraj Kaushal married Sushma Swaraj, who was to later become Leader of the Opposition and Minister of External Affairs, in 1975. (Express Photo by Tashi Tobgyal)

As a lawyer, he famously defended socialist stalwart George Fernandes in the Baroda dynamite case during the Emergency. “Young socialists of those days looked up to George Fernandes. Kaushal was one among them. He took it upon himself to fight George’s case,” former BJP MP S S Ahluwalia told The Indian Express. At this time, it was his wife Sushma Swaraj who had coined the famous slogan for the 1977 Lok Sabha election – Jail ka faatak tootega, George hamara chhootega (the gates of the jail will break open; our George will be released).

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