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Major Jaswant Singh (pronunciation ⓘ; 3 January 1938 – 27 September 2020) 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), and was one of India's longest serving parliamentarians, having been a member of the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha almost continuously between 1980 and 2014. He was NDA's Vice-presidential candidate in the 2012 Indian vice-presidential election.Singh was the only leader from ...
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. This initiative follows a request from the defense ministry to all cantonment boards to suggest new names for places that were named during the British era.
Jaswant Singh of Marwar. Raja Jaswant Singh I (26 December 1626 [1] – 1678) [a] 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 27, 2020 · Prime Minister Narendra Modi remembered Singh’s “unique perspective on matters of politics and society”. “Jaswant Singh Ji served our nation diligently, first as a soldier and later during his long association with politics. During Atal Ji’s Government, he handled crucial portfolios and left a strong mark in the worlds of finance, defense and external affairs.
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 Sunday morning.
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 was admitted to an Army hospital in Delhi on June 25. He was being treated for Sepsis with Multiorgan Dysfunction Syndrome. | Latest News India
Sep 27, 2020 · New Delhi: 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 ...
Sep 27, 2020 · Jaswant Singh, a veteran Indian politician who served as defense minister, finance minister and external affairs minister during his career, has died. He was 82.
Former Union minister Jaswant Singh passed away on Sunday at the age of 82. He was born on January 3, 1938 in village Jasol in Barmer district of Rajasthan.
