Won't contest 2019 Lok Sabha election, says Sushma

November 20, 2018 15:11

Union minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj has declared that she will not contest the 2019 general election.

"It is the party which decides, but I have made up my mind not to contest the next elections," said the Union minister for external affairs told reporters in Indore.

She said she had informed her party.

Sushma is the Lok Sabha MP from Vidisha from Madhya Pradesh.

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