Indira Gandhi, PN Haksar proved to be more than Nixon-Kissinger in 1971

While the former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was dying, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh recorded on Thursday that in 1971 the then US President Richard Nixon and Kissinger created huge headaches for India, but the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her close Collaborator P N Haksar demonstrated “more than a party for them”.

Kissinger, who dominated foreign policy while the United States withdrew from Vietnam, died on Wednesday. Tenya 100 years.

In a publication on X, Ramesh said: “Henry Kissinger has died. “It was immensely transcendental and enormously controversial.” “His long and turbulent life has been at once celebrated and condemned,” pointed out Ramesh. “But there can be no doubt about his intellectual brilliance and his impressive charisma”, he said.

During the last three decades, he positioned himself as a great friend and supporter of India, and that’s what he did, said Ramesh.

“But it was not always like this and especially in 1971, President Nixon and he created huge headaches for India and thought that we had been cornered. However, Indira Gandhi and P N Haksar proved to be more than rivals for them”, said the former Union minister.

“He described the Kissinger-Haksar and Nixon-Indira Gandhi meetings with details from the archive in my book ‘Vidas interlazadas: PN Haksar and Indira Gandhi’”, said Ramesh.

He also pointed out that Gary Bass in his book ‘The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide’ seriously accused Kissinger of his role in the events of 1971 that led to the creation of Bangladesh.