Mani Shankar Aiyar
Mani Shankar Aiyar is a former Indian diplomat turned politician.
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Biography
He is a member of the Indian National Congress party and was a part of the first Cabinet of Manmohan Singh, who was the Prime Minister. He has served as the Union Minister of Panchayati Raj until 2009. He also served as the Union Cabinet Minister for Petroleum and Nature and the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. He was also the first Minister for the Development of the North East Region. He served 26 years in the Indian Foreign Service, the last five of which was working in the Prime Minister’s Office under Rajiv Gandhi (1985–1989). He is a special invitee to the Congress Working Committee and a chairman of both the party’s political training department and the department of policy planning and coordination.
Education
He graduated in economics from Delhi University, and then did a two-year B.A. in Tripos in Economics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge at the University of Cambridge which, in the Oxbridge tradition, became an M.A with the passage of time.
Notable Work
He is also a well-known political columnist and has written several books, including Pakistan Papers and Remembering Rajiv. He has edited a four-volume publication entitled Rajiv Gandhi’s India.
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