DELHI NEW: Perhaps one of India’s most successful leaders, the gentle-spoken Manmohan Singh passed away on Thursday, December 26, at 92. He was referred to as a “reluctant king” during his first term as prime minister.
Singh, the country’s first Sikh leader, held the uncommon dual term as prime minister from 2004 to 2014. He was receiving treatment for age-related illnesses. Hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of extreme poverty and India has experienced extraordinary economic progress because to Singh.
“India mourns the loss of one of its most distinguished leaders,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared.Having come from a low-income family in a region of British-ruled India that is now in Pakistan, Manmohan Singh studied by candlelight to get admission to Cambridge University before continuing on to Oxford, where he completed his doctoral dissertation on the contribution of free trade and exports to India’s economy.
When he was unexpectedly appointed finance minister in 1991, he had no obvious plans for a political career, despite having established himself as a recognized economist, India’s central bank governor, and a government adviser.
In addition to promoting deregulation and rescuing India’s economy from a dire balance of payments crisis, Singh was the driving force behind other reforms that opened the closed nation to the outside world during that period, which ended in 1996.
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