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Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
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Former Prime Minister and veteran economist Manmohan Singh bid farewell to political life with his retirement from the Rajya Sabha. Manmohan Singh, called India’s reformer for his economic reforms, may have bid farewell to his 33 years of public life without any grand ceremony, but the former prime minister who showed India the path to liberalisation, from economist to prime minister. The journey was very wonderful. India achieved many achievements during his tenure, although he was criticized at times.

Known for his soft-spoken and humble nature, Manmohan Singh became a member of the Rajya Sabha for the first time in October 1991. He then became a member of the upper house six consecutive times. He can never come from the Lok Sabha. However, in 1999, Manmohan Singh contested the Lok Sabha elections from the South Delhi Lok Sabha seat, in which he lost to the BJP’s Vijay Kumar Malhotra. These were the first and last elections in the life of the Lok Sabha. From 1 October 1991 to 14 June 2019, he was a member of the Rajya Sabha from Assam for five consecutive terms. In 2019, after a gap of two months, he again returned to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. He was the Finance Minister in the Narasimha Rao government from 1991 to 1996. Later he was also the Prime Minister of the state from 2004 to 2014. Not only that, from March 21, 1998 to May 21, 2004 he was the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. After that, even when he was prime minister between 2004 and 2014, he was the leader of the house.

Manmohan Singh held so many positions

Born on September 26, 1932 in the village of Gah (Punjab Province, Pakistan), Singh received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from the University of the Punjab in 1952 and 1954 respectively. He then completed his economics tripos from Cambridge University in 1957. Then, in 1962, he did a D.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford. Dr. Singh served as Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Chief Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance and Secretary to the Ministry of Finance. He served as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1976 to 1980 and then as Governor from 1982 to 1985. He was also the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission. and chairman of the university’s grants committee.

“Sometimes he was called Buffett CM and sometimes Maunmohan Singh”

As Prime Minister and even later, Manmohan Singh was often surrounded by criticism. Sometimes the BJP called him to run a government surrounded by corruption and sometimes he was called an enthusiastic prime minister. At the same time, BJP called him Maunmohan Singh many times. He was also accused of running the government by taking orders from the Gandhi family. Even so, while stepping down as Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh said, ‘I really hope that history will be kind while examining me.’

When economic reforms began as Minister of Finance

Dr. Manmohan Singh’s greatest contribution to the country is to initiate economic reforms as the Finance Minister. In 1991, India’s international trade balance was in a dismal deficit. In 1991, its foreign debt doubled from $35 billion to $69 billion. To India There was very little money and time. Then as an emergency measure to deal with our current account deficit, the Reserve Bank of India pledged its gold holdings with the Bank of England to raise about $400 million to reduce the current account deficit.

Subsequently, Dr. Singh initiated a series of reforms in the Indian economy which he called “reforms with a human face”. The prelude to the abolition of the license raj was written with the introduction of the Industrial Policy, 1991. To overcome this crisis, Manmohan Singh opened the Indian market to foreign companies in the budget It.

This step gave the government its first success in a few months, when in December 1991 the Indian government managed to get the gold that was enslaved abroad and hand it over to the RBI. Globalization in the country was started by Singh in 1991. He not only opened India to the world market, but Also simplified the export and import rules. Dr. Manmohan Singh carried out wide-ranging economic reforms in the Indian economy and no one can deny that he made a significant contribution in revamping the Indian economy.

I have not been in good health for some time.

His health has not been good for some time. He is often seen attending Rajya Sabha proceedings in a wheelchair. Recently, during the farewell of retired members of the Rajya Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised Manmova Singh’s role as a member of the Rajya Sabha. He said his contribution will never be forgotten. Prime Minister Modi also said that it was seen many times that he came to vote while in a wheelchair and he strengthened democracy.




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