CHANDIGARH: Few can claim to have witnessed former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's journey from a young UN delegate to India's top office as close as Inderjit Singh Chadha, former Indian Foreign Service officer and ambassador, did with an association that spans nearly six decades.
Just months older than Singh, Chadha first met him in 1965 at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. "When I arrived in New York, Manmohan Singh was just a junior officer there while I was India's delegate," recalled Chadha, now settled in Chandigarh's Sector 36. "This is from where he started his international career."
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