I had to visit the Prime Minister once again and complain: ‘Madam, this is the end. I’m not continuing any more. Since you spoke to him the last time, he has become even more malicious. I cannot carry on like this.’ Indira Gandhi looked at me and said very calmly, ‘Dr Kurien, then I shall remove him.’ And that is exactly what she did. She sacked the Agriculture Minister because he refused to stop interfering in the working of NDDB. Rao Birendra Singh came to know what was in store for him only three days
