{"id":26217,"date":"2024-12-27T06:23:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T06:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=26217"},"modified":"2024-12-27T06:27:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T06:27:14","slug":"manmohan-singh-the-architect-of-indias-economic-triumph-dies-at-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/12\/manmohan-singh-the-architect-of-indias-economic-triumph-dies-at-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Manmohan Singh, the architect of India’s economic triumph, dies at 92"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) – People in India are reflecting on former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s contribution to the country since his death on Thursday evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Singh, who held the top post for two consecutive terms between 2004 and 2014, was seen as an architect of India’s economic liberalisation which changed the country’s growth trajectory.<\/p>\n

The first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power, Singh was also the first Sikh to assume the top office.<\/p>\n

Known as a soft-spoken technocrat, he had earlier headed India’s central bank, served as a finance secretary and minister, and led the opposition in the upper house of parliament, reported BBC.<\/p>\n

Here are five milestones from Singh’s life that shaped his career and had a lasting impact on more than a billion Indians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Singh was appointed finance minister in 1991 by the Congress party-led government under Prime Minister PV Narsimha Rao.<\/p>\n

India’s economy at the time was facing a serious financial crisis, with the country’s foreign reserves at a dangerously low level, barely enough to pay for two weeks of imports.<\/p>\n

He was famously quoted as saying in parliament during his first budget speech in 1991 that “no power on Earth can stop an idea whose time has come”.<\/p>\n

Later, as prime minister, Singh continued to build on his economic reform measures, lifting millions of Indians out of poverty and contributing to India’s rise as one of the world’s fastest-growing major economies.<\/p>\n

Singh signed a historic deal with the US in 2008 to end India’s nuclear isolation after its 1998 testing of the weapon system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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