He told me that his political mentors in the navy wanted him to apply for Communist Party membership.
Among those invited to address the gathering was, of course, the group's political mentor himself, now 72 years old.
Indeed, applicants would occasionally show up for interviews accompanied by their political mentors.
He later referred to Iyengar as his "political mentor".
The goal is to figure out to whom a member of Congress cannot say no: his chief donor, his campaign manager, a political mentor.
Warner soon become one of Bligh's key political mentors.
A shef organization from the towns such as an individual factory would take on the role of cultural and political mentor to some rural group.
Bhutto considers Ghinwa to be her real mother and political mentor.
Satyamurti is also remembered today as the political mentor of Thiru.
Tjipto then became his main political mentor and turned him into a convinced radical nationalist.