 Swaraj was called India's "best-loved politician" by the US daily "Wall Street Journal".She decided not to contest the 2019 Indian general election due to health reasons as she was recovering from a kidney transplant and needed to "save herself from dust and stay safe from infection" and hence did not join the second Modi Ministry in 2019.According to the doctors at AIIMS New Delhi, she succumbed to a cardiac arrest following a heart attack on the night of 6 August 2019.