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Late Congress leader Makhan Lal Fotedar was a close confidante of former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi
and Rajiv Gandhi.
Hailing from Kashmir, Fotedar was one of the most powerful persons in the Congress.
He enjoyed immense trust of Indira Gandhi who had made him her political secretary in 1980. After her death, Rajiv Gandhi also made him his political secretary for three years, before inducting him in his Cabinet as a minister.
Fotedar also was a member of the powerful Congress Working Committee (CWC), the highest decision-making body of the party, for a long time.
In the first picture, Fotedar is seen with SM Krishna, who is now a senior BJP leader from Karnataka, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Sheila Dikshit.
In the second photo, he is seen with Arjun Singh, ND Tiwari and Sheila Dikshit. They had formed a breakaway party, Congress (Tiwari) after resigning from the government, headed by the then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, following the demolition of the Babri Masjid on 6 December 1992. They held Rao responsible for the demolition, saying he had not taken enough steps to protect the mosque. They later rejoined the Congress when Sitaram Kesri became the party president in 1996. While Arjun Singh later became a Union Minister in the Manmohan Singh government, Dikshit assumed the Delhi Chief Minister's post in 1998 and remained at the helm for three successive terms till 2013. ND Tiwari became the Uttarakhand Chief Minister in 2002, and in the fag end of his life he quit the Congress to join the BJP.
In the third picture, Fotedar is seen listening to the conversation between former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and former Home Minister SB Chavan at a conference. Also seen is former Union Minister Rajesh Pilot, father of former Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot.