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Manmohan Singh was the 13th prime minister of India, serving from 2004 to 2014, and was the first Sikh to hold the position. Born on September 26, 1932, in Punjab, he had a significant impact on India's economy, particularly during a fiscal crisis in 1991. Singh was re-elected after completing a full term, making him one of the longest-serving prime ministers in Indian history.

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Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh was the 13th prime minister of India, serving from 2004 to 2014, and was the first Sikh to hold the position. Born on September 26, 1932, in Punjab, he had a significant impact on India's economy, particularly during a fiscal crisis in 1991. Singh was re-elected after completing a full term, making him one of the longest-serving prime ministers in Indian history.

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Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh[a] (26 September 1932 – 26 December 2024) was an Indian politician, economist,
academic, and bureaucrat, who served as the 13th prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was the
fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi. A
member of the Indian National Congress, Singh was the first Sikh prime minister of India. He was also
the first prime minister since Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term.

Early life and education


Singh was born to Gurmukh Singh Kohli and Amrit Kaur on 26 September 1932, in Gah, Punjab, British
India, into a family of Punjabi Sikh dried fruit traders. His mother died when he was very young. He was
raised by his paternal grandmother Jamna Devi, with whom he was very close.

Singh was initially educated at a local gurdwara, where he began studying Urdu and Punjabi. On 17 April
1937, he was enrolled in the local Government Primary School, where he continued his Urdu-medium
education until the age of 10 (Class 4), after which he and his family moved to Peshawar. There, Singh
was enrolled in the upper-primary Khalsa School. He sat for his matriculation examination in the summer
of 1947. Even as prime minister years later, Singh 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.

Political career
In 1991, India's fiscal deficit was close to 8.5 percent of the gross domestic product, the balance of
payments deficit was huge and the current account deficit was close to 3.5 per cent of India's GDP.
India's foreign reserves barely amounted to US$1 billion, enough to pay for 2 weeks of imports,[32] in
comparison to US$600 billion in 2009.

Singh explained to the PM and the party that India is facing an unprecedented crisis. However the rank
and file of the party resisted deregulation.

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