<Tr> <Th> Signature </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Kunwar Natwar Singh (born 16 May 1931) is an Indian politician, a former senior bureaucrat, a former Union cabinet minister, and a writer . </P> <P> Singh was selected into the Indian Foreign Service, one of the most competitive and prestigious government services, in 1953 . In 1984, he resigned from the service to contest elections as a member of the Indian National Congress party . He won the election and served as a union minister of state until 1989 . Thereafter, he had a patchy political career until being made India's foreign minister in 2004 . However, 18 months later, he had to resign under a cloud after the UN's Volcker committee named both him and the Congress party to which he belonged as beneficiaries of illegal pay - offs in the Iraqi oil scam . </P> <P> The fourth son of Thakur Govind Singh of Deeg and his wife Thakurani Prayag Kaur, Singh was born in the princely state of Bharatpur to an aristocratic Jat family related to the ruling dynasty of Bharatpur . He attended Mayo College and Scindia School, Gwalior, both traditionally for Indian princely clans and nobles, and took an undergraduate degree at St. Stephen's College, Delhi . He subsequently studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University and was a visiting scholar for a period at Peking University in China . </P>

Politician has not served as an officer in the indian foreign services