Salman Khurshid

Salman Khurshid

Salman Khurshid Alam Khan 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 has been elected from Farrukhabad Lok Sabha constituency in the General Election of 2009.

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Summary Salman KhurshidSalman Khurshid Alam Khan 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 is a lawyer, and a writer who has been elected from Farrukhabad Lok Sabha constituency in the General Election of 2009. Born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, he is the son of Khurshed Alam Khan a former Union Minister of External affairs, Government of India, and maternal grandson of Zakir Hussain, the third President of India. He studied in St. Xavier’s High School, Patna, Delhi Public School, Mathura Road. He obtained B.

A. from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and later did M. A, Bachelor of Civil Law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Oxford University. He also taught as lecturer in Law at Trinity College, Oxford. In 2009, he criticized the partition of India,. opining that a united India would have been better than a divided one. He appeared for Students Islamic Movement of India as its defence lawyer, appealing the 2002 ban; in June 2006 the Supreme Court of India rejected the appeal noting that the appeal against the ban should be first argued before the tribunal established for the purposes.