What Popular Science Propaganda & Political Connections Can Do In Science: Abdul Kalam is considered as a topmost scientist of India!!: KAMAL! ``In 2008, Indian media questioned his claims about his personal contributions to missile inventions while working in a classified missile programme. The media questioned Kalam taking credit of inventing the Agni, Prithvi and Aakash missile system, while all of these were developed, researched and designed by a group of scientists headed by Kalam and he was involved in getting the funds and other logistic tasks. Ram Narain Agarwal, former director, Advanced System Laboratory and former Program Director of Agni missile was considered to be the real architect behind the successful design of Agni Missile.[62][63] In his own biography, Kalam credited the development of Agni missile to Dr. Ram Narain Agarwal, an alumnus of MIT. For the Prithvi missile project, he named Col VJ Sundaram as the brain behind this project and for the Trishul missile, he gave credit to Commander SR Mohan.[64] In 2006, senior media correspondent Praful Bidwai, in the The Daily Star, wrote that two aerospace projects, Project Valiant and Project Devil, which were authorised by former Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi under the directorship of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, resulted in total failure. In the 1980s, these projects were ultimately cancelled by the government under the pressure of the Indian Army.[65] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam
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