Sushma Swaraj: Hometown remembers ‘Ambala ki beti’ | Cities News, The Indian Express

Sushma Swaraj: Hometown remembers ‘Ambala ki beti’ | Cities News, The Indian Express

Written by D N DIVAKAR |Ambala |Published: August 8, 2019 10:48:17 am

Sushma Swaraj: Hometown remembers ‘Ambala ki beti’

Sushma’s family was well-known in Ambala. Born in Palwal, she was brought up by her maternal grandfather, a popular medical practitioner in BC Bazaar, after her mother had passed away.

Sushma’s house at BC Bazaar, where she spent her childhood. (A. Aggarwal)

KNOWN AS ‘Ambala ki Beti’ in her hometown, former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj — who passed away at the age of 67 after a cardiac arrest Tuesday — spent her childhood in BC Bazaar at Haryana’s Ambala Cantonment, about 46 km from state capital Chandigarh.