Swaran Singh Purewal was born on 19 August 1907 in Shankar in Jalandhar district of Punjab.
23 Facts About Swaran Singh
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Swaran Singh completed his intermediate at Randhir College in Kapurthala.
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Swaran Singh then joined Government College, Lahore and completed a degree in Physics with honors.
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Swaran Singh then worked as a lecturer in Physics in Lyallpur Khalsa College.
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Swaran Singh started a law practice near his birth village in the nearby town of Jallandhar, specialising in criminal law.
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Swaran Singh played an important role in the compromise between the Indian national congress party and the Akali Dal in the early 1940s.
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Swaran Singh then became parliamentary secretary to the Punjab Coalition government.
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Swaran Singh was a member of the Punjab Partition Committee where he played an important role.
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Swaran Singh entered the cabinet of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in 1952, and was that government's last surviving member.
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Swaran Singh spent 23 years of his life as a high ranking Cabinet Minister in the Government of India.
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Swaran Singh had a reputation for being an effective debater and negotiator.
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Swaran Singh assisted Jawaharlal Nehru in his talks with the Chinese leader Zhou Enlai, on the Indo-China border question in 1960.
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Swaran Singh remained a part of successive governments until he resigned in November 1975.
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Swaran Singh was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1957,1962,1967 and 1972.
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Swaran Singh is best known for his role as India's external affairs minister.
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Swaran Singh was president of the National Congress in 1969, and 1978.
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Swaran Singh visited the USSR in July 1966 along with then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
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Swaran Singh led the Indian delegation to the UN general assembly in 1971 to explain India's position in the ongoing war with Pakistan.
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Sardar Swaran Singh was chairperson of the committee entrusted with the responsibility of studying the Constitution of India in 1976 during the national emergency.
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Swaran Singh was awarded Padma Vibhushan award - the second highest civil award by the republic of India in 1992.
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Sardar Swaran Singh met with Nelson Mandela in prison three times in the mid 1980s.
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Swaran Singh was a member of the eminent persons group on South Africa sponsored by the Commonwealth Institute that consisted of Malcolm Fraser who had been Prime Minister of Australia for eight years, General Obasanjo of Nigeria, Lord Barber who had been Edward Heath's Chancellor of the Exchequer and was chairman of the Standard Chartered Bank, Dame Nita Barrow, Reverend Scott and John Malecela, a Tanzanian former government minister.
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Sardar Swaran Singh served as a member of board of directors from 1985 - 1989 for sessions 123 - 132.