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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) , [9] and was one of India's longest serving parliamentarians, having been a member of the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha almost ...
Jul 5, 2023 · Updated on Jul 05, 2023, 14:36 IST - - 3.3 K Shares. 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.
Aug 29, 2021 · A+. Air Vice Marshal Kanwar Jaswant Singh was among the most flamboyant officers in the Indian Air Force. When he died in harness, as the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Air Command on New Year’s Eve of 1963, India lost one of its most promising officers. He left a tale that needs to be told.
Sep 27, 2020 · Jaswant Singh died after a cardiac arrest at the Army Hospital. (Express Photo by Amit Mehra/File) The passing away of Jaswant Singh Sunday marks the end of another chapter in the fading out of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee era in the BJP. Coincidentally, the demise of one of the chief architects of the BJP’s coalition politics occurred a day ...
Sep 27, 2020 · New Delhi: Former union minister Jaswant Singh, a close aide of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, died this morning in Delhi. He was 82. Jaswant Singh, who was from Rajasthan, had...
Sep 28, 2020 · Jaswant Singh died after a cardiac arrest at the Army Hospital. (Express Photo by Amit Mehra/File) 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.
Sep 27, 2020 · NEW DELHI (AP) — Jaswant Singh, a veteran Indian politician who served as defense minister, finance minister and external affairs minister during his career, died Sunday. He was 82. A statement by an Indian army-run hospital said Singh was admitted to the hospital on June 25 for multiple ailments and died of cardiac arrest early Sunday.
