Minister Khurshid will discuss the relationship between the United States and India in a speech, followed by a conversation with India and South Asia Program Faculty Director, R. Nicholas Burns. Minister Khurshid currently serves as the Minister of External Affairs - a cabinet ministerial post - in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government. A member of the Indian National Congress Party, he is a lawyer and a writer elected from Farrukhabad Lok Sabha constituency in the 2009 general election. He was elected to the 10th Lok Sabha (1991--1996) and became the Union Deputy Minister of Commerce in June 1991, and later the Union Minister of State for External Affairs (Jan. 1993 -- June 1996). His political career began in 1981, as an Officer on Special Duty in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) under the prime ministership of Indira Gandhi. belfercenter.org/events/6149/.html October 1, 2013

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