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The Congress party on Wednesday (August 20, 2025) appointed former Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid as the chairman of the Department of Foreign Affairs. Apart from this, former MPs Brijendra Singh and Dr. Aarti Krishna have been made Vice Chairman. At the same time, recently, Anand Sharma resigned as the chairman of foreign affairs. He had said that now new people should get a chance.
Who is Salman Khurshid, who got a big responsibility in Congress party
Salman Khurshid has been a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the second term of Manmohan Singh. He has commanded the Ministry of External Affairs from 2012 to 2014. Apart from this, he has also been the Minister of the Ministry of Cooperative and Minorities.
Salman Khurshid started his political career as an OSD in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) during the tenure of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in early 1980. After this, he was made the Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India during the Deputy Minister of Commerce and 1991-1996.
Khurshid was involved in delegation going abroad after Operation Sindoor
At the same time, former External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has also been a member of the all party delegation sent by the Government of India to the All Party Dailing after Operation Sindoor. Who told about India’s retaliation through terrorist attacks and operation vermilion conducted by Pakistan in front of the countries of the world.
Brijendra Singh became Lok Sabha MP after being 21 years old bureaucrat
Brijendra Singh has been a former MP from Hisar Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency in Haryana. He contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2019 on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket and won. However, he later left the BJP and joined the Congress.
Brijendra Singh has also been an Indian administrative officer, who took a clean retirement after serving as a bureaucrat in Haryana for 21 years and later stepped into politics.
Dr. Aarti Krishna has been in charge of Congress’s Indian Pravasi Department
At the same time, Dr. Aarti Krishna has been in charge of the Congress Department of Congress Party. Dr. Krishna has been associated with the Congress party for a long time. She is the daughter of senior Congress party leader and former Rural Development Minister of Karnataka Begane Ramaiya. Apart from this, Dr. Aarti Krishna has also been the first president of NRI Cell of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee. The party has now appointed the vice chairman of the department related to foreign affairs.
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