- Manmohan Singh is an Indian economist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014
| Born: | 26 September 1932 Comment | | How old is Manmohan Singh in 2024? / Age: | 91 years
| | Zodiac sign: | Libra |
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Manmohan Singh facts
- The first Sikh in office, Singh was also the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term
- Born in Gah (now in Punjab, Pakistan), Singh's family migrated to India during its partition in 1947
- After obtaining his doctorate in economics from Oxford, Singh worked for the United Nations during 1966–69
- He subsequently began his bureaucratic career when Lalit Narayan Mishra hired him as an advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Trade
- Over the 70s and 80s, Singh held several key posts in the Government of India, such as Chief Economic Advisor (1972–76), Reserve Bank governor (1982–85) and Planning Commission head (1985–87)
- In 1991, as India faced a severe economic crisis, newly elected Prime Minister P
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- Narasimha Rao surprisingly inducted the apolitical Singh into his cabinet as Finance Minister
- Over the next few years, despite strong opposition, he as a Finance Minister 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 general election
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