Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh passed away on Thursday at the age of 92 in Delhi.
The Senior Congress leader was admitted to the emergency department of Delhi’s AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) and had breathed his last on Thursday evening. Priyanka Gandhi and other leaders from the party also arrived at the hospital earlier in the evening.
Singh’s Political Background
Dr. Manmohan Singh, the two-term Prime Minister, retired from the Rajya Sabha earlier this year, ending his political innings in the Upper House after 33 years.
Manmohan Singh was sworn in as Prime Minister on May 22 after the 2004 general elections and took the oath of office for a second term on May 22, 2009.
India’s only Sikh prime minister entered the Rajya Sabha in 1991, four months after he was sworn in as the finance minister in June 1991 in the government headed by PV Narasimha Rao. He represented Assam for five terms in the Upper House and shifted to Rajasthan in 2019.
His last intervention in Parliament was against demonetisation, describing it as an “organised loot and legalised plunder”.
Singh, who was born on September 26, 1932 in Punjab, received his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Economics from Punjab University in 1952 and 1954 respectively. He completed his Economic Tripos from Cambridge University in 1957. He followed this with a D.Phil in Economics from Oxford University in 1962.
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