Kumar Bahukhandi
Former PM Manmohan Singh admitted to AIIMS
Former Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh has been admitted to the emergency department of AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) today. He was brought to the hospital after his health suddenly deteriorated. There is no official information available about Dr. Singh’s health condition at present. A special team of doctors is examining him. Dr. Manmohan Singh, who has been the Prime Minister of the country twice, is 91 years old. He has been facing health problems for a long time. Even before this, he has been admitted to the hospital several times due to health reasons.
Dr. Manmohan Singh was born on 26 September 1932 in a village in the Punjab province of undivided India. Coming from a simple background, Dr. Singh achieved extraordinary achievements in education, economics and politics in his life. Dr. Manmohan Singh passed the matriculation examination from Punjab University in 1948. After this, he received a first class honors degree in Economics from Cambridge University (UK) in 1957. He earned a D. Phil in Economics from Nuffield College, Oxford University in 1962. His passion for education led him to teaching at Punjab University and Delhi School of Economics.
In 1971, Dr. Singh joined the Government of India and became an economic advisor in the Ministry of Commerce. In 1972, he was appointed Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance. After this, he held many important positions, including Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister and Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC).
Contribution as Finance Minister
From 1991 to 1996, Dr. Singh was the Finance Minister of India. During this time, he implemented a comprehensive policy of economic reforms, which was appreciated all over the world. These reforms gave a new direction to India by rescuing it from the economic crisis. Dr. Manmohan Singh became a member of the Rajya Sabha for the first time in 1991. He represented Assam five times and became a Rajya Sabha member from Rajasthan in 2019. From 1998 to 2004, when the Bharatiya Janata Party was in power, Dr. Singh was the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. He also contested the Lok Sabha elections from South Delhi in 1999, but did not succeed.
After the 2004 general elections, he was appointed the Prime Minister of India on 22 May. He took oath as Prime Minister for the second time in 2009 and remained in this post till 2014.
