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Some of his landmark achievements as a Cabinet Minister include his selection as the best Finance Minister of the world in 1984 by Euromoney Magazine; Finance Minister of the Year award in 2010 by Emerging Markets, the daily newspaper of Record of IMF, World Bank etc.; and as the Defence Minister, opening the gates for stronger India-US defence cooperation by concluding the ‘New Framework for US-India Defence Relations’ in 1995.

In this capacity, he also laid down the much-needed blue print for the modernisation of India’s Armed forces and established procedures and systems to overcome crippling delays that had eroded the nation’s defence capability. As the External Affairs Minister, he built the foundation for wider relations with the US, steering and signing the India-US Nuclear Agreement in 2010.

The Former President also served as the Chairman of around 95 Groups of Ministers (GoMs), during the two UPA Governments (2004-10), formed by an alliance of over Pranab Mukherjee Wiki, Age, Death, Caste, Wife, Children ...

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