Natwar singh sonia gandhi biography
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Sonia's reaction shows book has touched a raw nerve: Natwar Singh
Natwar said Sonia did not give him the chance to present his version over the Volcker report on oil-for-food scam, lamenting that he was cut out of the party despite four decades of loyalty with a ruthlessness alien to Indian culture.
"In India, you don't insult your elders. You give them regard. Indira Gandhi, Rajiv would not have done this. Anybody born in India would not have done this. But she has done it," he said. While Natwar claimed he had not used the words "Italian roots", the reference was more than clear.
"She has been in this country for 40 years but she still did it," he said.
The former foreign minister made light of Sonia’s re
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Natwar Singh
Indian politician (–)
Kunwar Natwar Singh, IFS (16 May – 10 August ) was an Indian diplomat and politician who served as the Minister of External Affairs from May to December Having been suspended by the Congress in ,[2] he joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in but was removed from the party within four months.[3][1]
Singh was selected into the Indian Foreign Service in In , he resigned from the service to contest elections as a member of the Indian National Congress party. He won the election and served as a union minister of state until Thereafter, he had a patchy political career until being made India's foreign minister in However, 18 months later, he had to resign after the United Nations' (UN) Volcker committee named both he and the Congress party to which he belonged as beneficiaries of illegal pay-offs in the scandal related to the UN's Oil-for-Food Programme.[4]
In , he wrote his autobiography One Life is Not E
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Natwar Singh: A Nehruite Who Lost Faith
Arguably the gods of the Nehruvians amongst us, Natwar Singh – who passed away on Saturday (August 10) at the very ripe age of 94 – personified both the best of Nehruvian traits as well as its decline and confusion in the last decade of his long public life.
A man born in a princely compound and tutored in an elite school, Kunwar Natwar Singh shed his feudal predispositions when he went to Cambridge University. An English education made him a modern Indian, and he soon joined the Grand Nehruvian Enterprise of establishing and consolidating a democratic India.
As an Indian utländsk Service officer, Singh became part of an elite bureaucracy that joyfully attended to the task of fleshing out the Republic, putting tillsammans the structures and protocols of a democratic nation-state in an ancient nation long subjected to medieval and imperial depredations. Though the present generation of Indians, unfortunately, remains unappreciative of the t