Natwar Singh

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The Honourable K. Natwar Singh PB
Minister of External Affairs
In office 22 May 2004 – 6 December 2005
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Yashwant Sinha
Succeeded by	Manmohan Singh
Minister without portfolio
In office 8 December 2005 – 22 May 2009
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Mamata Banerjee
Succeeded by	Arun Jaitley
Personal details
Born	(1929-05-16) 16 May 1929 (age 95) Jaghina, Bharatpur, Bharatpur State, British Raj (present-day Rajasthan, India)
Political party	Indian National Congress (1984-2006)
Spouse	Heminder Kaur
Children	Jagat Singh Ritu Kaur
Residence	New Delhi
Alma mater	Mayo College, Ajmer St. Stephen's College, Delhi Scindia School
Occupation	Politician
Awards	Padma Bhushan
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Kunwar Natwar Singh, IFS (born 16 May 1929) is an Indian diplomat and politician who served as the Minister of External Affairs from May 2004 to December 2005.

Singh was selected into the Indian Foreign Service in 1953. In 1984, 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 1989. Thereafter, he had a patchy political career until being made India's foreign minister in 2004. However, 18 months later, he had to resign after the UN's Volcker committee named both him and the Congress party to which he belonged as beneficiaries of illegal pay-offs in the Iraqi oil scam.^[1]