The Minister of External Affairs is the head of the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India. One of the senior-most offices in the union cabinet, the chief responsibility of the minist
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an Indian statesman and a poet who served as the prime minister of India, from 1998 to 2004, and previously for two weeks in 1996. He was the first non-Congress prime minister
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…his official designation as defence minister. There have been a number of external affairs ministers who went on to become the prime minister like Atal Bihari Vajpayee, P. V. Narasimha Rao and I. K. Gujral. Two former career-diplomats have served as ministers of external affairs, including Natwar Singh (2004–2005) who…
Official portrait, 1998
Vajpayee addressing a political rally in 1977.
Foreign Minister Vajpayee (far right), President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (far left) and Prime Minister Morarji Desai (third from right, front row) with US President Jimmy Carter during his 1978 visit to India.
Vajpayee with Russian president Vladimir Putin on 6 November 2001