Manmohan Singh, the Former Prime Minister of India, Dies at Age 92
As one of India’s most successful leaders, the gentle-spoken Manmohan Singh passed away on Thursday at 92. He was called a “reluctant king” during his first term as prime minister. Singh’s three daughters and wife survive him. 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 have been lifted out of extreme poverty, and India has experienced extraordinary economic progress because of Singh.India mourns the loss of one of its most distinguished leaders,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared.
Manmohan Singh was born into a low-income family in what is now Pakistan, a region of British-ruled India. He studied by candlelight to get admission to Cambridge University before continuing on to Oxford, where he completed his doctoral thesis on the contribution of free trade and exports to the Indian economy.
He rose to prominence as an economist, served as governor of India’s central bank, and advised the government. However, when he was unexpectedly appointed finance minister in 1991, he had no clear ambitions to pursue a political career.
Singh oversaw the implementation of deregulation, changes that prevented India’s economy from experiencing a serious balance of payments crisis, and other initiatives that opened the closed nation to the outside world from that time till 1996.
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