I. K. Gujral
Prime Minister of India (1997-1998) · India · Politicians · Lived 1919 to 2012 · aged 92
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Something wrong?He held India's top office for eleven months, but his real mark was a doctrine: the idea that a regional power could unilaterally ease relations with smaller neighbors without demanding reciprocity first.
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I K Gujral in Dhaka with former MP Kamran Chowdhury and his son Umran Chowdhury
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President of India Shankar Dayal Sharma administering the oath of office of Prime Minister of India to Shri I. K. Gujral at the Rashtrapati Bhavan
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The Union Home Minister, Shri Shivraj Patil addressing the Seminar on “The Communal Violence (Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of Victims) Bill- 2005 in New Delhi on January 6, 2006
The Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari, the former Prime Minister, Shri I. K. Gujral and the Union Minister for Urban Development, Shri Jaipal Reddy at the Second Netaji Subhash Memorial Lecture functionIn their own words 6
, It fell to my lot to orient our foreign policy during the period of bewilderingly rapid changes wherein one kind of world was ushered out and another kind was ushered in.
...some parts of India were subject to militancy sponsored from across the border. The problems are in the northeast and the in north, it affects Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.
After the tests [Nuclear tests by India], I had said there was no imminent danger to India's security environment which necessitated us to undertake the tests.
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Born in Punjab in 1919, Inder Kumar Gujral came up through student politics and the Communist Party, then spent time in British jails during the Quit India movement. After independence he shifted to the Congress party in 1964 and entered the Rajya Sabha. He served as Minister of Information and Broadcasting during the Emergency, then as Ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1976. Two decades later, as External Affairs Minister in the Deve Gowda government, he articulated what became the Gujral doctrine - a framework for regional diplomacy that shaped India's approach to South Asia. In April 1997 he was appointed prime minister; the government fell inside a year. He retired from politics in 1998 and died in 2012 at 92, weeks before his 93rd birthday, after a lung infection.
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