Manmohan Singh: The Prime Minister responsible for strategic corrections to India's foreign policy
India TV NewsIn his tribute to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar rightly pointed out that the former PM was equally responsible for the strategic corrections to India's foreign policy. Manmohan Singh, India's former Prime Minister and statesman, passed away late Thursday night. Under his prime ministership, India took some bold steps in foreign policy, which were visionary and replete with Manmohan Singh's farsightedness. Strengthening ties with Russia, Japan, China Shifting from the policy of non-alignment, Manmohan Singh focussed on the policy of greater engagement, which enabled India to make its own version of the multi-polar world, which used to be the bi-polar world in the wake of the United States and Russia's engagement in the Cold War.