Kunwar Natwar Singh | Short Biography of Natwar Singh |
Kunwar Natwar Singh | Short Biography of Natwar Singh |
👉Kunwar
Natwar Singh, better known as K. Natwar Singh was born on May 16, 1931 at
Jaghina village in Bharatpur district, Rajastan, India. His Gotra is Bhagaur.
Maharaja Bachchu Singh was the relative of the royal family of Patiala and also
Natwar Singh is married in the former
royal house of Patiala. Natwar Singh's father served in the royal army in the
home state of Bharatpur.
👉Chaudhary
Singh holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Stephen's College, University of
Delhi, Delhi. He also studied at Cambridge University (Corpus Christi) in
England and Peking University in China.
👉Chaudhary
Natwar Singh joined the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1953 and served 31 years in this capacity. One of his first
assignments was in Beijing, China . Subsequently, he was sent to New
York with the Permanent Mission of India and as India's Representative
to the Executive Committee of UNICEF .
👉In August
1967, Singh married Maharajkumari Heminder Kaur (b.June 1939), the main
daughter of the latest Maharaja of Patiala State, Yadavindra Singh, Esister of
Amarinder Singh, the current titular Maharaja of Patiala and former Prime
Minister of. Punjab
👉He served on
several major UN committees between 1963 and 1966. In 1984 he joined the Indian
National Congress and was elected to the eighth Lok Sabha by Bharatpur
constituency in Rajasthan. In 1985, he became Minister of State in Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Council of Ministers with the portfolios of steel,
coal, mining and agriculture. From 1986 to 1989 he was Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs. He was elected President of the U N Conference on Disarmament
and Development held in New York
👉He led the
Indian Delegation to the 42nd Session of the U N General Assembly. In the 1989
General Elections for Lok Sabha, he contested and lost from Mathura Lok Sabha Constituency.
He was back in the Twelfth Lok Sabha in 1998 by winning once again from
Bharatpur.
👉He was
elected to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan in 2002.When the Congress came back
to power, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appointed him to the Cabinet as
Minister for External Affairs on May 23, 2004.Before his resignation from
Manmohan Singh Ministry on December 6, 2005, he was a Minister Without
Portfolio for some time. Earlier he was removed from his post as Minister in
charge of External Affairs on November 7, 200.Later he resigned from the
Ministry and the Congress Party.
👉Kunwar
Natwar Singh is the first Indian to be awarded the title of "Cambridge
Corpus Kristy Fellow" by the British Corpus Kristy College established
in 1352 for his extraordinary contribution to the international politics.
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