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From AllIndia.com Writer and Commentator on National and Foreign Affairs; as a young boy in 1931, started a movement of young children in Jhelum town and participated in freedom struggle and was jailed in 1942 during 'Quit India' Movement. President, (i) Lahore Students' Union, (ii) Institute of Defence Studies, 1989-92 and (iii) Rotary Club of Delhi, 1960; Vice-President of New Delhi Municipal Committee, 1956-64; Chairman, (i) Government Committee for Promotion of Urdu, (ii) Nari Niketan Trust & A.N.Gujral Memorial School, Jalandhar (Punjab), (iii) UNESCO Seminar on Man and current Communication Systems, pairs 1973 and (iv) Committee on Commerce from April, 1993; Co-Chairman, Asian Rotary Conference, 1961; General Secretary of the Punjab Students' Federation; Convener of United Front & spokesman of Opposition Parties Conclave in Calcutta, Srinagar & Delhi; Leader, (i) Indian Delegations in Calcutta, Annual & special Session on Economic Development, on Education and Environment, Tbilisi, 1977; Alternate leader, (i) Indian Delegation to the UNSECO Session, in 1970, 1972 and 1974 and (ii) Indian Delegation to the U.N. Session on Environment, Stockholm in 1974; Special envoy to Garbon, Camoroun, Congo, Chad and Republic of Central Africa in 1975; represented India as Special Envoy on the occasion of Inaugural of the Republic Celebration, Bulgaria, 1969; Delegate to Inter-Parliamentary Union Meeting, Canberra (Australia), 1967; Ambassador of India to USSR (In the rank of Cabinet Minister), 1976-80; Minister in attendance with Presidents of India during their State visits to Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Egypt and Sudan; Union Minister of State holding different portfolios in the Ministries of Communications and Parliamentary Affairs, Information & Broadcasting, Works & Housing, Planning from 1967 to 1976; Union Minister of External Affairs, 1989-90; Member, (i) General Purposes committee, Rajya Sabha, (ii) Rajya Sabha from 1964 to 1976, (iii) Lok Sabha, 1989-91 and (iv) elected to the Rajya Sabha again in July, 1992. As the Prime Minister his portfolio included: External Affairs, Personnel and Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy, Electronics, Jammu and Kashmir Affairs, Ocean Development and Space, Health and Family Welfare, Planning and Programme Implementation. |
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