K Natwar Singh

Former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh died on Saturday at age 93, after a prolonged illness.

Former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh passed away on Saturday night after prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 93.

Mr Singh (91) rejected as "rubbish" the charge by critics the Rajiv Gandhi government's decision to ban the book was driven by appeasement towards Muslims.

A group of foreign service officers were up in arms against the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi for his shock announcement in 1987 that Foreign Secretary AP Venkateswaran would be replaced and diplomat-turned-politician K Natwar Singh stepped in.

The Muslim League would not have allowed the country to function and there would have been more "direct action days" if partition had not taken place, Congress leader K Natwar Singh said on Sunday.

"For 99.999 per cent of us, becoming PM would be the fulfillment of an impossible dream. For a few, a very few, nothing could be more normal."

Former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh, in an interview with NDTV, said he was glad that Congress President Sonia Gandhi was writing a book.

Estranged Gandhi family loyalist K Natwar Singh, a former external affairs minister, today raked up Congress President Sonia Gandhi's Italian origin, suggesting that her "ruthless" side came from it as "no Indian would have treated me" like she did to him.

Sonia Gandhi declined to become the Prime Minister in 2004 because of strong opposition from her son Rahul, who was afraid she would be killed like his father and grandmother if she accepted the post, former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh claimed today in an interview to a private news channel.

Former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh died on Saturday at age 93, after a prolonged illness.

Former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh passed away on Saturday night after prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 93.

Mr Singh (91) rejected as "rubbish" the charge by critics the Rajiv Gandhi government's decision to ban the book was driven by appeasement towards Muslims.

A group of foreign service officers were up in arms against the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi for his shock announcement in 1987 that Foreign Secretary AP Venkateswaran would be replaced and diplomat-turned-politician K Natwar Singh stepped in.

The Muslim League would not have allowed the country to function and there would have been more "direct action days" if partition had not taken place, Congress leader K Natwar Singh said on Sunday.

"For 99.999 per cent of us, becoming PM would be the fulfillment of an impossible dream. For a few, a very few, nothing could be more normal."

Former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh, in an interview with NDTV, said he was glad that Congress President Sonia Gandhi was writing a book.

Estranged Gandhi family loyalist K Natwar Singh, a former external affairs minister, today raked up Congress President Sonia Gandhi's Italian origin, suggesting that her "ruthless" side came from it as "no Indian would have treated me" like she did to him.

Sonia Gandhi declined to become the Prime Minister in 2004 because of strong opposition from her son Rahul, who was afraid she would be killed like his father and grandmother if she accepted the post, former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh claimed today in an interview to a private news channel.