Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is an Indian politician and retired diplomat who currently serves as the minister of external affairs since 2019. He is the longest-serving minister for external affairs to hol
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Jaishankar (left) while serving as Indian ambassador to China in 2013, during prime minister Manmohan Singh's visit to China
Jaishankar with US secretary of state John Kerry in Washington D.C. in 2014
Jaishankar with US secretary of state Antony Blinken in New Delhi in 2021
Sushma Swaraj was an Indian lawyer, politician and diplomat who served as the 5th Chief Minister of Delhi, and also the Minister of External Affairs of India in the First Modi ministry from 2014 to 20
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…minister. On 5 July 2019, he was elected as member of Parliament from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat. He succeeded Sushma Swaraj who was the external affairs minister in Narendra Modi's first government. In October 2020, Jaishankar and the Indian minister of defence, Rajnath…
The Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Smt. Sushma Swaraj addressing the Press on "Birds flu" in New Delhi on 29 January 2004
Sushma Swaraj taking charge as the Union Minister for External Affairs, in New Delhi on 28 May 2014
Secretary of State John Kerry and Sushma Swaraj address reporters during news conference following strategic dialogue