Also read - Will-Kat's India visit is sweet but Britain is a royal third rate power
Watching William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, sail down the lawn at the British high commissioner-designate’s residence on Monday evening brought back memories of Queen Elizabeth's visit to India in 1997, when IK Gujral was prime minister – and he had been infamously quoted as saying on the eve of that visit that "Britain was a third-rate power."
A refugee from Pakistan, Gujral had, of course, risen to the top political job because he was the agreed number two candidate of the Third Front -- all the warring, non-Congress and non-BJP parties hadn’t been able to agree on anyone else, especially after Jyoti Basu was ruled out by his own party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
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