Shivshankar Menon | Manmohan brought decency into public life; restored faith in the political system
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Shivshankar Menon | Manmohan brought decency into public life; restored faith in the political system

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I first met Dr Manmohan Singh when he was finance minister and he came to Tokyo in 1991. While I was in Sri Lanka, China, and Pakistan, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee encouraged me to brief the then Leader of the Opposition in the Upper house, Dr Manmohan Singh. The landmark civil nuclear agreement with the US and the waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group in 2008, both of which owed much to Dr Manmohan Singh’s tenacity, opened the way to the close cooperation that we enjoy today. Indeed, this is the lesson that I personally take from Dr Manmohan Singh’s life and manner -- that it is possible to be good and in politics, and to achieve great positive change too. In that sense, his life restored faith in politics and the political system, just as he brought balance and decency into our public life while holding India’s most powerful office.

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