India<\/a>\u00a0Way:\u00a0Strategies for an Uncertain World,” in Pune, he said that becoming foreign secretary had been the limit of his ambition. Jaishankar served as Foreign Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs prior to being Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cFor me to become foreign secretary, was frankly the limit of my ambition, I had never even dreamt of becoming a minister,” Jaishankar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I really also sometimes ask myself that if he was not the Prime Minister, would I have had the courage to enter politics, I don\u2019t know,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking about his experience working with former Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, he said, \u201cWe had a very-very good minister Sushma ji and we got along personally very well. I would say our combination was very good, a minister-secretary combination. But, I did learn one thing, there is a difference in responsibilities, there is a difference in the overall sense of being a secretary and a minister.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar while speaking at an event in Pune on Saturday said that he wasn\u2019t sure if any other Prime Minister would\u2019ve appointed him as a minister. Speaking at an event for the release of the Marathi translation of his book, \u201cThe\u00a0India\u00a0Way:\u00a0Strategies for an Uncertain World,” in Pune, he said that becoming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89821,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89819\/revisions\/89821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}