K. Natwar Singh
Kunwar Natwar Singh (born May 16, 1931, Jaghina, Bharatpur, Rajastan, India) is an Indian politician and former cabinet minister. On December 7, 2005, he was removed from his post as Minister in charge of External Affairs under a cloud of scandal and became a minister without portfolio. Named by the U.N. Independent Enquiry Committee (popularly known as Volcker committee) as a beneficiary of illegal payoffs in Iraqi oil scam, he was forced to resign from the Cabinet on December 6, 2005.
He is married to the daughter of Yadavindra Singh of Patiala Maharajkumari Heminder Kaur, and is hence brother-in-law to Amarinder Singh, the current Maharaja of Patiala and a former chief minister of Punjab.
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