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Indian politician (–)

Kunwar Natwar Singh, IFS (16 May – 10 August ) was an Indian diplomat and politician who served as the Minister of External Affairs from May to December Having been suspended by the Congress in ,^[2] he joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in but was removed from the party within four months.^[3][1]

Singh was selected into the Indian Foreign Service in In , he resigned from the service to contest elections as a member of the Indian National Congress party.

He won the election and served as a union minister of state until Thereafter, he had a patchy political career until being made India's foreign minister in However, 18 months later, he had to resign after the United Nations' (UN) Volcker committee named both he and the Congress party to which he belonged as beneficiaries of illegal pay-offs in the scandal related to the UN's Oil-for-Food Programme.^[4]

In , he wrote his autobiography One Life is Not E