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Jaswant Singh

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Jaswant Singh (born 3 January 1938) is a retired officer of the Indian Army and a former cabinet minister. [1]

57 relations: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bajpai, Barmer (Lok Sabha constituency), Barmer district, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, Bharatiya Janata Party, Bill Clinton, Darjeeling (Lok Sabha constituency), Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Foreign minister, Foreign policy, George Fernandes, Hinduism, Independent politician, Indian Army, Indian general election, 2014, Indian Military Academy, Indian nationality law, Jasol, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jayalalithaa, Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence, Kandahar, Leader of the Opposition (India), List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu, Lok Sabha, Manmohan Singh, Manvendra Singh, Mayo College, Member of parliament, Minister of Defence (India), Minister of External Affairs (India), Minister of Finance (India), Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, National Defence Academy (India), National Democratic Alliance (India), Outstanding Parliamentarian Award, P. Chidambaram, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Pakistan, Pokhran-II, Presidencies and provinces of British India, President of the United States, Rajasthan, Rajput, Rajputana Agency, Rajya Sabha, Sona Ram, ..., Strobe Talbott, Tehelka, The Hindu, Vice President of India, West Bengal, Yahoo!, Yashwant Sinha. Expand index (7 more) »

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) (lit. All India Anna Dravidian Progress Federation) is an Indian political party in the state of Tamil Nadu and in the Union Territory of Puducherry.

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (pronunciation; born 25 December 1924) is an Indian politician who was the 10th Prime Minister of India, first term for 13 days in 1996 and then from 1998 to 2004.

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Bajpai

Notable individuals with this surname include.

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Barmer (Lok Sabha constituency)

Barmer Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 25 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Rajasthan state in western India.

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Barmer district

Barmer District is a district in Rajasthan state of India.

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Bhairon Singh Shekhawat

Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (23 October 1923 – 15 May 2010) was the 11th Vice President of India.

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Bharatiya Janata Party

The Bharatiya Janata Party (translation: Indian People's Party; BJP) is one of the two major political parties in India, along with the Indian National Congress.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Darjeeling (Lok Sabha constituency)

Darjeeling (Lok Sabha constituency) (दार्जिलिंग लोकसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र, দার্জিলিং লোকসভা নির্বাচন কেন্দ্র) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India.

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Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission

Since the prime minister happens to be the ex-officio chairperson of Planning Commission of India, the position of the deputy chairperson has great significance.

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Foreign minister

A foreign minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations.

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Foreign policy

A country's foreign policy, also called foreign relations or foreign affairs policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve goals within its international relations milieu.

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George Fernandes

George Mathew Fernandes (born 3 June 1930) is a former Indian trade unionist, politician, journalist, agriculturist, and member of Rajya Sabha from Bihar.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.

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Independent politician

An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated with any political party.

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Indian Army

The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Indian general election, 2014

The Indian general election of 2014 was held to constitute the 16th Lok Sabha, electing members of parliament for all 543 parliamentary constituencies of India.

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Indian Military Academy

The Indian Military Academy, Dehradun (also known as IMA) is the officer training Academy of the Indian Army.

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Indian nationality law

The conferment of a person, as a citizen of India, is governed by Articles 5 to 11 (Part II) of the Constitution of India.

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Jasol

Jasol is a located in Pachpadra tehsil of Barmer district, India.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence.

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Jayalalithaa

Jayaram Jayalalithaa (born Komalavalli, 24 February 1948 –5 December 2016) was an Indian film actress and politician who served six terms as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for over fourteen years between 1991 and 2016.

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Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence

Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence is a book written by Jaswant Singh, a former Finance Minister of India and an External Affairs Minister, on Pakistan's founder Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the politics associated with the Partition of India.

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Kandahar

Kandahār or Qandahār (کندهار; قندهار; known in older literature as Candahar) is the second-largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of about 557,118.

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Leader of the Opposition (India)

The Leader of the Opposition is the politician who leads the official opposition in either House of the Parliament of India.

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List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu

The complete list of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu consists of the heads of government in the history of the state of Tamil Nadu in India since 1920.

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Lok Sabha

The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha.

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Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh (born 26 September 1932) is an Indian economist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014.

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Manvendra Singh

Colonel Manvendra Singh is an Indian politician, currently serving as Member of Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan.

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Mayo College

Mayo College (informally Mayo) is a boys-only independent boarding school in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Minister of Defence (India)

The Minister of Defence is the head of the Ministry of Defence of the Government of India.

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Minister of External Affairs (India)

The Minister of External Affairs (or simply Foreign Minister) is the head of the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India.

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Minister of Finance (India)

The Minister of Finance (or simply, Finance Minister) is the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India.

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Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Mohammad Hamid Ansari (born 1 April 1937) is an Indian politician who served as Vice-President of India from 2007 to 2017.

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (محمد علی جناح ALA-LC:, born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai; 25 December 1876 – 11 September 1948) was a lawyer, politician, and the founder of Pakistan.

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National Defence Academy (India)

The National Defence Academy (NDA) is the Joint Services academy of the Indian Armed Forces, where cadets of the three services, the Army, the Navy and the Air Force train together before they go on to respective service academies for further pre-commissioning training.

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National Democratic Alliance (India)

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is a centre-right coalition of political parties in India.

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Outstanding Parliamentarian Award

The Outstanding Parliamentarian Award is an award given by the Indian Parliamentary Group to an outstanding sitting Member of the Indian Parliament for overall contribution in the Indian Parliament.

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P. Chidambaram

Palaniappan Chidambaram (born 16 September 1945) is an Indian politician and attorney who currently serves as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha and formerly served as the Union Minister of Finance of India.

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P. V. Narasimha Rao

Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June 1921 – 23 December 2004) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the 9th Prime Minister of India (1991–1996).

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Pokhran-II

Pokhran-II was the series of five nuclear bomb test explosions conducted by India at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in May 1998.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (literally, "Land of Kings") is India's largest state by area (or 10.4% of India's total area).

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Rajput

Rajput (from Sanskrit raja-putra, "son of a king") is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent.

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Rajputana Agency

The Rajputana Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire dealing with a collection of native states in Rajputana (now in Rajasthan, northwestern India), under the political charge of an Agent reporting directly to the Governor-General of India and residing at Mount Abu in the Aravalli Range.

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Rajya Sabha

The Rajya Sabha or Council of States is the upper house of the Parliament of India.

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Sona Ram

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Strobe Talbott

Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III (born April 25, 1946) is an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine, and a diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001.

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Tehelka

Tehelka (Hindi: Sensation) is an Indian news magazine known for its investigative journalism and sting operations.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian daily newspaper, headquartered at Chennai.

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Vice President of India

The Vice-President of India is the second-highest constitutional office in India after the President.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..

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Yashwant Sinha

Yashwant Sinha (born 6 November 1937) is an Indian administrator, politician and a former Minister of Finance (1990–1991 under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar and March 1998 – July 2002 under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Minister of External Affairs July 2002 – May 2004).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaswant_Singh

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