PNN – Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is known as the architect of the country’s economic reforms, died on Thursday morning local time at the age of 92.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network from Hindustan Times news website, Veteran Congress leader Manmohan Singh, who retired from the Rajya Sabha after 33 years in the upper house and served as India’s prime minister from 2004 to 2014, died early on Thursday.
India’s Health Minister JP Nada wrote in the first government response to the incident on X social network: The death of the former Prime Minister and economist, His Excellency Manmohan Singh, is a great loss for the Indian nation. He was a visionary statesman and a staunch politician for India during his extremely active career.
He added: He was constantly serving the people and his leadership won admiration and respect among all parties. Manmohan Singh’s great legacy will continue to inspire generations in nation building.
Singh was India’s prime minister from 2004 to 2014, but political commentators say his tenure as finance minister in the early 1990s was most significant.
His policies during that period put India on the path of economic liberalization and globalization. The good relations between India and Iran Congress Party led by Manmohan Singh in 2012 led to the agreement on the development of Chabahar port, which brought Tehran and New Delhi closer to each other from different angles.
Singh was born on September 26, 1932 in a village called Gah in what is now Pakistan. When the British colonial government separated India and Pakistan in 1947, his family migrated to the East.
He continued his education until the doctorate degree in economics at Oxford University and in 1991, by ending the socialist economy in India; he left himself in the history of this country.