Manmohan
Singh
Born in Gah (now in Punjab, Pakistan), Singh's
family migrated to Amritsar India, during in 1947. Where he studied at
Hindu College. He attended Panjab University, Chandigarh, then in Hoshiarpur
Punjab, studying Economics and got his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1952
and 1954, respectively, standing first throughout his academic career. He
completed his Economics at University of Cambridge. He got his doctorate in economics from Oxford, He worked for the
United Nations during 1966–69. He held several key posts in the Government, such as Chief Economic Advisor period 1972–76, Reserve bank governor period 1982–85.

In 1991, Prime
Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao surprisingly
inducted the Manmohan Singh into his cabinet as Finance Minister., he as a Finance Minister carried out several
structural reforms that liberalized
India’s Economy. Although these measures proved successful in averting the crisis,
and enhanced Singh's reputation globally as a leading reform-minded economist,.
Subsequently, Singh served as Leader
of the Opposition in the Rajya
Sabha(the upper house of Indina
parliament) during the NDA
Government of 1998–2004.In 2004, when the Congress-led United Progressive Allince (UPA)
came to power, its chairperson Sonia
Gandhi unexpectedly relinquished the premiership to Manmohan He executed
several key legislations and projects, i.e the Rural health Mission,Unique
Identification Authority, Rural Employement Guarantee scheme and Right
to Informatio Act. and In 2008,
opposition to a historic Civil nuclear
agreement with the United States nearly caused Singh's government to
fall after Left Fornt parties
withdrew their support. Although India's economy grew rapidly under UPA I, its
security was threatened by several terrorist incidents like 2008 Mumbai attacks. In General election 2009 saw the UPA
return with an increased mandate, with Singh retaining the office of Prime
Minister. Over the next few years, his second term government faced a number of
corruption charges—over the organisation of the Commonwealth Games, the 2G-spectrum
allocation and allocation of coal blocks. After his term ended in 2014 he opted
out from the race to the office of the PM
during 2014 General elections

Manmohan Sigh is An Indian economist and politician who served
as the Prime Minister of India from
2004 to 2014 and also he is the first Sikh
first prime minister.
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