Hamid Ansari memoirs: Depreciates PM's selective reference to his vast contributions By IANS | Published on Wed, Jan 27 2021 14:42 IST | 0 Views
Hamid Ansari memoirs: Depreciates PM's selective reference to his vast contributions. Image Source: IANS News New Delhi, Jan 27 : M. Hamid Ansari, after a long and distinguished career during which he served as India's envoy to five countries and as the Permanent Representative at the UN, served two terms as Vice President, a honour previously accorded only to Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Besides chairing the Rajya Sabha, Ansari used the vice presidency as a formidable pulpit to express himself candidly on a range of issues at different times in India's changing political landscape. Their overarching theme was the need for modern India to re-commit itself to the constitutional principles of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity, to the values of a composite culture, and for correctives in polity relating to identity, security and empowerment of the weaker segments of our society - but the Prime Minister (he doesn't name Narendra Modi) made scant reference to this on his last day in office and "pigeonholed" his work in Muslim countries, Ansari writes in his memoirs titled 'By Many A Happy Accident - Recollections Of A Life', that will be released on Thursday.