| Names |
NATWAR SINGH |
| Date of
Birth |
May 16, 1931
- Bharatpur, India. |
| Identity |
Indian politician, a former senior bureaucrat,
a former Union cabinet minister, and a
writer. |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
In August 2014, Natwar Singh's autobiography,
One Life is Not Enough, was released. The book
reveals many sensitive developments during Indira Gandhi's,
Rajiv Gandhi's, Narasimha Rao's and Manmohan Singh's regimes.
The book among other things alleges :
- Sonia Gandhi confessed to him that she was under immense
pressure from the Americans to not to appoint Natwar Singh
as the Minister of External Affairs (India).
- Nehru on his return from China visit in October 1954,
stopped in Calcutta and the first letter he wrote on his
China experience was to Edwina Mountbatten. As the Prime
minister of India, this was against the Oath of secrecy he
had taken.
- Indira Gandhi paying homage to Babur during her
Afghanistan visit.
- Sonia Gandhi wielded influence over the Media during the
UPA reign.
- The book alleges that Sonia Gandhi spied on all the
Cabinet ministers and there was a mole present in each of
their office feeding information to 10 Janpath.
- Manmohan Singh was not happy with the arrangement to
have a dyarchy and said that he was a very lonely person.
- M G Ramachandran covertly supported and financed the
LTTE and their cadres were being given military training in
Tamil Nadu.
- The book states that M.G.R also considered Jaffna
an extension of Tamil Nadu and had gifted 40 million rupees
to the LTTE.
- The book alleges that M.O. Mathai, personal secretary of
Nehru was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent and
received money for the same and that CIA had access to every
paper passing through Nehru's cabinet.
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| General |
- Selected into the Indian Foreign Service
in 1953.
- In 1984, 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 1989.
- He was made India's foreign minister in
2004. However, 18 months later, he had to resign under a
cloud after the UN's Volcker committee
named both him and the Congress party to which he belonged
as beneficieries of illegal payoffs in the Iraqi oil
scam.
- The Congress party came back to power in 2004, and Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh appointed Natwar Singh the Minister
for External affairs.
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