Every day of the hijacking, my father was woken up at midnight by a call from wife of a crew member. He’d sit on the bed, listening to her crying every night.
Jaswant Singh’s son rejoined BJP this month terming it a ‘family decision’, says he felt ‘alone’ in Congress & Rahul Gandhi’s vision is not finding traction with ‘local sharks’.
His son Manvendra is said to be weighing options about returning from Congress to BJP. Jaswant was expelled for contesting as Independent from Barmer parliamentary seat in 2014.
Jaswant Singh, a former Army officer, served as external affairs, defence and finance minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's governments from 1998 to 2004.
Former President Pranab Mukherjee and former defence minister Jaswant Singh are both at Army Research and Referral Hospital. Both suffered similar accidents, six years apart.
After listening to people’s views for years, I now wish to ask my grandfather Jaswant Singh about his personal experience of the Kandahar hijack episode.
China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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