NEW DELHI:
Speaker after speaker described Singh as one of India's greatest prime ministers, and yet a humble man. Former foreign secretary Shyam Saran, who was a key negotiator of the landmark India-US civil nuclear agreement, recalled how and why Singh went for the deal, even putting his premiership on the line. "The Indo-US nuclear deal was his gift to the nation. In November 2004, I came back from a visit to Washington as foreign secretary with a US proposal to negotiate a civil nuclear cooperation with India, which would de facto acknowledge India as a nuclear power."
"The PM's initial reaction was one of caution. He asked, 'what would India have to give in return and what it would do for India?' I said the negotiations would be difficult but it would result in the dismantling of all the technology-denial regimes, which had kept India hemmed in for decades."
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