18 Facts About Salman Khurshid

Salman Khurshid Alam Khan was born on 1 January 1953 and is an Indian politician, designated senior advocate, author and law teacher.

Salman Khurshid was the Cabinet Minister of the Ministry of External Affairs.

Salman Khurshid is a member of the Indian National Congress who was elected from Farrukhabad Lok Sabha constituency in the General Election of 2009 from the Farrukhabad area.

Salman Khurshid became the Union Deputy Minister of Commerce in June 1991, and later became the Union Minister of State for External Affairs.

Salman Khurshid 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.

Salman Khurshid is the son of Khurshed Alam Khan, a former Union Minister of External affairs, Government of India, and maternal grandson of Zakir Husain, the third President of India.

Salman Khurshid is of Pathan ancestry on both his paternal and maternal sides of his family, he traces his lineage to the Afridi and Kheshgi Tribes of Afghanistan.

Salman Khurshid studied in St Xavier's High School, Patna, Delhi Public School, Mathura Road.

Salman Khurshid taught as lecturer in law at Trinity College, Oxford.

Salman Khurshid lost the election of 1996 and it was not until 2009 that he returned to Parliament.

Salman Khurshid became the Union Minister of State of Corporate Affairs and Minority Affairs in the Government of India.

Salman Khurshid took over as Minister on Friday, 29 May 2009.

Salman Khurshid came 4th and lost his deposit in the Lok Sabha elections 2014 contesting from the same constituency of Farrukhabad.

Salman Khurshid has been the President of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee twice.

Salman 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".

In 2009, Salman Khurshid criticized the partition of India, opining that a united India would have been better than a divided one.

Salman Khurshid was the editor of "The Contemporary Conservative: Selected Writings of Dhiren Bhagat" published in 1990.

In October 2021, Salman Khurshid published Sunrise over Ayodhya: Nationhood in Our Times, writing about India's decline in secularism surrounding the Ayodhya dispute.