Pokhran nuclear tests Vajpayee's 'most enduring contribution', says Jaishankar

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Jaishankar said on Friday, even as President of the US-India Business Council and former US State Department official Nisha Biswal said Mr
In an indication of the almost certain increased focus on human rights and democratic values by the forthcoming Biden Presidency, she also
Biswal was delivering the A.B
Vajpayee Memorial Lecture, an annual lecture series begun by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on the occasion of the former PM's 96th
birth anniversary.Ms
Minister Vajpayee was able to foresee what many others failed to see, he saw the potential dangers posed by a rising and unchecked China
And he saw the importance of a US-India partnership, built on the foundation of our democratic values, to advance a rules-based order that
assertive China that sought to leverage its growing economic clout to advance its strategic ambitions, often at the expense of its neighbors
The words of Prime Minister Vajpayee, some 20 years ago, foreshadowed the challenges that we are seeing play out across the Indo-Pacific
strengthening our global institutions
And the advances of the past four years and the strategic convergence which we have seen deepened in the current administration will
introduced corrections, some bold and others more nuanced
His 1998 exercise of the nuclear option will remain his most enduring contribution
If our Russia relationship remains steady to this day, this owes partly to his endeavours
policy
He had an intuitive understanding that the post-Cold War world required India to drastically rework its relationships and interests