Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh established through the India-US nuclear deal that he knew how to do politics when it was really necessary, even though the deal is still “not appropriately appreciated”, his close aide Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Thursday.

Delivering a lecture on ‘The Life and Legacy of Dr Manmohan Singh’ as part of the prime minister’s lecture series organised by the Centre for Contemporary Studies of Prime Ministers Museum and Library, the former Planning Commission deputy chairman said the present cooperation in the fields of defence and security would not have been possible had the nuclear deal not been signed.

Late Manmohan Singh’s wife Gursharan Kaur, and Nripendra Misra, Chairman, Prime Ministers Museum and Library, were present at the event.

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