Inder Kumar Gujral

November 15, 2006

Former Prime Minister of India (1997-98), he has been Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Minister of Communications, Minister of Planning and Minister of Science and Technology. He chaired the SAARC Summit of South Asian Countries, Male, Maldives (1997), the World Democracy Conference, New Delhi (1998) and the Citizens’ Commission for South Asia. He served twice as Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs (1989-90/1996-97). India’s foreign policy has been so closely associated with his name in recent years that certain principles guiding India’s relations with its neighbours have been named the “Gujral Doctrine”.