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Deepak Vohra
Indian politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Deepak Vohra is a retired Indian diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service who has served as an Indian Ambassador to Armenia, Poland and Sudan. He also served as the technology advisor to former Prime Minister of India PV Narasimha Rao.
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Education and early career
Vohra studied at St. Columba's School, Delhi. He then graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He pursued his studies at National Defence College (India) and at the University of Paris.[1][2]
After joining the IFS, he was an Officer on Special Duty to the Technology Advisor to the then Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao.[3] Vohra has also previously worked with Sulabh International and has been a part of United Nations assignments in Africa.
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Indian Foreign Service
Vohra has served in France, Tunisia, United States, Russia, Chad, Cameroon, Papua New Guinea, Spain, Armenia, Sudan and Poland. In 1995 he was deputy high commissioner in Kuala Lumpur. He was Ambassador of India to Poland.[4]
Later career
In 2012 he was Advisor to the Government of South Sudan. He was a news reader at Doordarshan in start of his career as a TV news presenter.[5] He inaugurated the Apati War Memorial at Kargil.[6] In September 2025, a group of students slammed his speech at Lady Shriram College in Delhi (LSR) for his misogynistic and regressive comments and demanded his apology.[7]
Awards
In 2013, Deepak Vohra was awarded the Order of the Two Niles (first class), Sudan's highest civilian honour by the President of Sudan.[8]
References
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