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Kanishka Singhnis a very well-known face in the Indian Congress Party. He is a long timentrusted aide of Rahul Gandhi and termed as eyes and ears of the scion of thengrand old party of India.
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He alwaysnremains in news for something wrong. He was alleged to have been involved innAugusta Chopper Scam by Kirit Somaiya. Further, Congressmen termed him the wall which is stopping Rahul Gandhi from becoming a mass leader. In fact, in manyncases, even a senior leader has to get appointment from Kanishka Singh to meetnRahul Gandhi.
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nProfile ofnKanishka Singh
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nKanishka is thenson of S. K. Singh, a former IFS Officer. Mr. S. K. Singh was the foreignnsecretary to the Government of India from 1989 to 1990. He became governor ofnArunachal Pradesh in 2007 and later of Rajasthan. It should be mentioned herenthat Mr. S. K. Singh has been the longest serving high commissioner tonPakistan. He was there from 1985 to 1989. These were turbulent time and therenis no denying that he didn’t handle the situation well.
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nMr. S. K. Singhnwas quite close to Rajiv Gandhi. Actually, it was Rajiv who had sent him tonPakistan and kept him there for such a long duration. Rajiv had also preferrednhim for the post of Foreign Secretary. After the assissanation of Rajiv Gandhi,nS. K. Singh remained close to the Gandhi family. At that time, his son KanishkanSingh became a close friend of Rahul Gandhi. He is quite junior to RahulnGandhi, but that has never been a barrier in developing close relation.
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nKanishka Singhnhas studied from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and then went to thenUSA to do M.S and MBA. He did MBA from Wharton. After spending some time as anninvestment banker in New York, Kanishka returned to India on the call of RahulnGandhi. He worked as a poll manager of Rahul in 2004 election in Amethi.nCongress came to power and being close to Rahul, Kanishka became reallynpowerful.
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nIn fact, thenpower of Kanishka Singh in Congress was at the same level which was enjoyed bynPrashant during Narendra Modi Prime Ministerial campaign. However, Kanishka wasnsummarily dethroned from all powerful political inner team of Rahul Gandhinafter the debacle of Congress in 2012 UP Assembly Election.
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nKanishka isnstill close to Rahul and Priyanka. But, there is no denying that he is no morena trusted aide of Rahul.
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