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Salman Khurshid Alam Khan (born 1 January 1953) is an Indian politician, designated senior advocate, eminent author and a law teacher. He was the Cabinet Minister of the Ministry of External Affairs. He belongs to the Indian National Congress. He is a lawyer, and a writer who has been elected from Farrukhabad Lok Sabha constituency in the General Election of 2009.
Aug 28, 2020 · Salman Khurshid was born on 1 January 1953 in the city of Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. Aligarh is close to Farrukhabad, his constituency, and even today, he has strong political clout in both these cities. He is the son of Khurshid Alam Khan, who was also a noted politician. His maternal grandfather, Dr. Zakir Hussain, was the third President of India.
Salman Khurshid plunged into politics as an heir to a political legacy but because he wanted to do that uniquely with a difference. He abhors the stereotype Muslim leader model, surviving on emotional sloganeering and pushing the community to political suicide. Nor does he see himself as a "secular leader" sadly cut off from the mainstream.
Salman Khurshid has been the Union minister for external affairs, is a well-known lawyer, and has written several books examining the state of the nation, including Sunrise Over Ayodhya, ...
Salman Khurshid is an Indian politician, lawyer, and writer. Mr. Khurshid started his political career as an Officer on Special Duty in the Prime Minister's Office, during the Prime Ministership of Indira Gandhi in the early 1980s. Later he became the Deputy Minister of Commerce, and then Minister of State for External Affairs from 1991-1996. During this period he was a Member of Parliament from the Farrukhabad constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
Salman Khurshid (b 1953, Aligarh) did his schooling at St. Xavier's School (Patna), Delhi Public School (Mathura Road, New Delhi), and college from St. Stephens College (Delhi University) and St. Edmund Hall (Oxford). He then taught Law at the Trinity College, Oxford. A renowned legal thinker and a practicing senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India, he is known for his varied interests in different fields. ...
Nov 16, 2021 · Salman Khurshid, a Muslim from the main opposition Congress party, published a book last month in which he compared the kind of Hindu nationalism that has flourished under Modi to “extremist ...
Nov 10, 2021 · NEW DELHI: Former union minister and Congress leader Salman Khurshid, who recently launched his book on the Ayodhya verdict, on Tuesday said that it was his responsibility to explain the verdict ...
Salman Khurshid comes from a political family and his father Khurshid Alam Khan was an external affairs minister and his maternal grandfather Dr Zakir Hussain was the third president of India.
Lucknow/New Delhi Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid, who is a part of the party’s panel formed to hold seat-sharing discussions with allies, on Friday appealed to the voters of the ...
