Spokesperson of Ministry of External Affairs, Vikas Swarup, has been appointed as High Commissioner of India to Canada.
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Swarup is an officer of the Indian Foreign Service batch of 1986 and is famous for penning down the novel Q & A, adapted in film as Slumdog Millionaire.
Gopal Baglay, Joint Secretary dealing with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran will replace Swarup as the spokesperson of MEA