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Manmohan Singh was an Indian politician and economist who served as Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was born in 1932 in British India and studied economics in India and the UK. As finance minister in 1991, he carried out economic reforms that liberalized India's economy. He again served as Prime Minister from 2004-2014, overseeing key social programs and economic growth, though his second term faced corruption charges.

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Manmohan Singh was an Indian politician and economist who served as Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was born in 1932 in British India and studied economics in India and the UK. As finance minister in 1991, he carried out economic reforms that liberalized India's economy. He again served as Prime Minister from 2004-2014, overseeing key social programs and economic growth, though his second term faced corruption charges.

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UN during 1966–1969.

He subsequently began his bureaucratic career when Lalit


Narayan Mishra hired him aThe 2009 general eleThe 2009 general election saw the UPA
return with an increased mandate, with Singh retaining the office of Prime
Minister. Over the next few years, Singh's second ministry government faced a
number of corruption charges over the organisation of the 2010 Commonwealth Games,
the 2G spectrum allocation case and the allocation of coal blocks. After his term
ended in 2014 he opted out from the race for the office of the PM during the 2014
Indian general election.[2] Singh was never a member of the Lok Sabha but has
served as a member of the Rajya Sabha, representing the state of Assam from 1991 to
2019 and Rajasthan since 2019.[3]

Early life and education


Singh was born to Gurmukh Singh and Amrit Kaur on 26 September 1932, in Gah,
Punjab, British India, into a Sikh family.[4] He lost his mother when he was very
young and was raised by his paternal grandmother, to whom he was very close.
[citation needed] His early schooling was in the Urdu medium, and even as Prime
Minister years later, he wrote his apparently Hindi speeches in the Urdu script,
although sometimes he would also use Gurmukhi, a script used to write Punjabi, his
mother tongue.

After the Partition of India, his family migrated to Amritsar, India, where he
studied at Hindu College, Amritsar.[citation needed] He attendction saw the UPA
return with an increased mandate, with Singh retaining the office of Prime
Minister. Over the next few years, Singh's second ministry government faced a
number of corruption charges over the organisation of the 2010 Commonwealth Games,
the 2G spectrum allocation case and the allocation of coal blocks. After his term
ended in 2014 he opted out from the race for the office of the PM during the 2014
Indian general election.[2] Singh was never a member of the Lok Sabha but has
served as a member of the Rajya Sabha, representing the state of Assam from 1991 to
2019 and Rajasthan since 2019.[3]

Early life and education


Singh was born to Gurmukh Singh and Amrit Kaur on 26 September 1932, in Gah,
Punjab, British India, into a Sikh family.[4] He lost his mother when he was very
young and was raised by his paternal grandmother, to whom he was very close.
[citation needed] His early schooling was in the Urdu medium, and even as Prime
Minister years later, he wrote his apparently Hindi speeches in the Urdu script,
although sometimes he would also use Gurmukhi, a script used to write Punjabi, his
mother tongue.

After the Partition of India, his family migrated to Amritsar, India, where he
studied at Hindu College, Amritsar.[citation needed] He attends an advisor in the
Ministry of Commerce and Industry. During the 1970s and 1980s, Singh held several
key posts in the Government of India, such as Chief Economic Advisor (1972–1976),
governor of the Reserve Bank (1982–1985) and head of the Planning Commission (1985–
1987).

In 1991, as India faced a severe economic crisis, the newly elected prime minister,
P. V. Narasimha Rao, inducted the apolitical Singh into his cabinet as finance
minister. Over the next few years, despite strong opposition, he carried out
several structural reforms that liberalised India's economy. Although these
measures proved successful in averting the crisis, and enhanced Singh's reputation
globally as a leading reform-minded economist, the incumbent Congress Party fared
poorly in the 1996 generThe 2009 general election saw the UPA return with an
increased mandate, with Singh retaining the office of Prime Minister. Over the next
few years, Singh's second ministry government faced a number of corruption charges
over the organisation of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the 2G spectrum allocation
case and the allocation of coal blocks. After his term ended in 2014 he opted out
from the race for the office of the PM during the 2014 Indian general election.[2]
Singh was never a member of the Lok Sabha but has served as a member of the Rajya
Sabha, representing the state of Assam from 1991 to 2019 and Rajasthan since 2019.
[3]

Early life and education


Singh was born to Gurmukh Singh and Amrit Kaur on 26 September 1932, in Gah,
Punjab, British India, into a Sikh family.[4] He lost his mother when he was very
young and was raised by his paternal grandmother, to whom he was very close.
[citation needed] His early schooling was in the Urdu medium, and even as Prime
Minister years later, he wrote his apparently Hindi speeches in the Urdu script,
although sometimes he would also use Gurmukhi, a script used to write Punjabi, his
mother tongue.

After the Partition of India, his family migrated to Amritsar, India, where he
studied at Hindu College, Amritsar.[citation needed] He attendal election.
Subsequently, Singh was leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha (the upper
house of the Parliament of India) during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government of
1998–2004.

In 2004, when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance came to power, its
chairperson Sonia Gandhi unexpectedly relinquished the prime ministership to Singh.
His first ministry executed several key legislations and projects, including the
National Rural Health Mission, Unique Identification Authority, Rural Employment
Guarantee scheme and Right to Information Act. In 2008, opposition to a historic
civil nuclear agreement with the United States nearly caused Singh's government to
fall after Left Front parties withdrew their support. India's economy grew rapidly
under his reign.

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