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Major Jaswant Singh ( pronunciation ⓘ; 3 January 1938 – 27 September 2020) [8] [A] was an officer of the Indian Army and an Indian Cabinet Minister. He was one of the founding members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), [9] and was one of India's longest serving parliamentarians, having been a member of the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha ...
Jul 5, 2023 · Update: The Lansdowne Cantonment Board in Uttarakhand has put forward a proposal to rename the town of Lansdowne in honor of Jaswant Singh, a hero of the 1962 India-China war. Sources report that the board passed a resolution to rename the popular tourist destination after Singh.
Sep 27, 2020 · Born in Jasol village of Rajasthan ’s Barmer district in 1938, Singh went to Mayo College in Ajmer and joined the Army after passing out from NDA. He entered politics in the 1960s and became a Rajya Sabha member in 1980, when the BJP took the new political avtar, coming out of its Jana Sangh shadow.
Raja Jaswant Singh I (26 December 1626 – 1678) was the Rathore Rajput ruler of the Kingdom of Marwar in the western part of Rajputana modern day Rajasthan. He was a distinguished man of letters and author of noted literary works like Siddhant-Bodh , Anand Vilas and Bhasha-Bhushan .
Sep 28, 2020 · Jaswant Singh, 82, was always somewhat of a misfit in the BJP, a party he helped found in 1980, and which he ably represented as a nine-time parliamentarian and Minister with key portfolios in the Vajpayee years between 1998 and 2004.
Jaswant Singh, former Union minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cabinet who held the crucial portfolios of external affairs, defence and finance, died after a prolonged illness on...
Sep 27, 2020 · Jaswant Singh, who served as External Affairs Minister from December 5, 1998 to July 1, 2002, was key to India’s foreign and strategic policy at the turn of the century. He shaped India’s engagement with the world at a critical juncture.
Oct 9, 2020 · Former Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh, whose service to his country spanned seven decades, passed away in New Delhi on September 27. As an army officer, parliamentarian and Cabinet...
Sep 27, 2020 · Former Union Minister Jaswant Singh died on Sunday. He was 82. He died today at 6:55 am of a cardiac arrest at Delhi's Army Hospital where he was admitted in June, the hospital said in a...
Former Union Minister Jaswant Singh passed away due to cardiac arrest on Sunday. He was 82. Singh “passed away at 6:55 am today. He was admitted on 25 June and was being treated for Sepsis with...
