Salman Khursheed was the Cabinet Minister of the Ministry of External Affairs.
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Salman Khursheed is a lawyer, and a writer who has been elected from Farrukhabad Lok Sabha constituency in the General Election of 2009.
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Salman Khursheed became the Union Deputy Minister of Commerce in June 1991, and later became the Union Minister of State for External Affairs.
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Salman Khursheed started his political career in 1981 as an Officer on Special Duty in the Prime Minister's Office under the prime ministership of Indira Gandhi.
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Salman Khursheed is of Pathan descent maternally, tracing his ancestry to the Afridi tribe.
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Salman Khursheed obtained B A from St Stephen's College, Delhi and later did M A, Bachelor of Civil Law at St Edmund Hall of Oxford University.
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Salman Khursheed 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.
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Salman Khursheed lost the election of 1996 and it was not until 2009 that he returned to Parliament.
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Salman Khursheed became the Union Minister of State of Corporate Affairs and Minority Affairs in the Government of India.
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Salman Khursheed came 4th and lost his deposit in the Lok Sabha elections 2014 contesting from the same constituency of Farrukhabad.
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Salman Khursheed has been the President of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee twice.
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Salman Khursheed Khurshid appeared for Students Islamic Movement of India, a group banned in India and frequently charged by Indian authorities with terrorist activities, as its defence lawyer, appealing the 2002 ban; in June 2006 the Supreme Court of India rejected the appeal noting "the appeal against the ban should be first argued before the tribunal established for the purposes".
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Salman Khursheed Khurshid has been the editor of "The Contemporary Conservative: Selected Writings of Dhiren Bhagat" published in 1990.
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