Manmohan Singh

**Dr. Manmohan Singh** (Punjabi:ਮਨਮੋਹਨ ਸਿੰਘ;Hindi:मनमोहन सिंह; 26 September 1932 – 26 December 2024) was the 13th Prime Minister of India. A famous economist, he was the first Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after completing a full five-year term, and the first Sikh to hold the office.

## Early life

Singh was born on 26 September 1932 in Gah, Punjab, British India, into a Sikh family. After the partition of India they moved to Amritsar. He studied at Panjab University, Chandigarh, at St John's College, Cambridge, and at Nuffield College, Oxford. Singh married Gursharan Kaur in 1958.

## Prime Minister of India

In 2004, when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance came to power, its chairperson Sonia Gandhi stepped down as leader of the India National Congress and supported Singh to replace her. His first ministry passed many important legislations and projects, including the National Rural Health Mission, Unique Identification Authority, Rural Employment Guarantee scheme and Right to Information Act. In 2008, many members of parliament were against a historic civil nuclear agreement with the United States. They voted in a vote of no confidence which nearly caused Singh's government to fall. India's economy grew faster during his term.

The 2009 general election saw the UPA return with an increased power, with Singh remaining as prime minister. Over the next few years, Singh's second ministry government were accused of corruption over the organisation of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the 2G spectrum allocation case and the Indian coal allocation scam. After his term ended, he decided not to return as prime minister during the 2014 Indian general election.

Singh was never a member of the Lok Sabha but served as a member of the Rajya Sabha, representing the state of Assam from 1991 to 2019 and Rajasthan from 2019 to 2024.

## Death

Singh died on 26 December 2024 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, India from heart disease at the age of 92.

## Other websites

- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh _official website_
- Profile & Curriculum Vitae
- List of current Union Ministers

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Manmohan Singh
- **image**: Official Portrait of the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.jpg
- **alt**: A portrait photograph of a bespectacled Indian man with a dark grey beard, a blue turban, and a white button-down shirt standing before a natural backdrop of trees. A pen is in his pocket.
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2004
- **office**: 13th Prime Minister of India
- **term start**: 22 May 2004
- **term end**: 26 May 2014
- **predecessor**: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- **successor**: Narendra Modi
- **1blankname1**: Ministry and Departments
- **term start1**: 22 May 2004
- **term end1**: 26 May 2014
- **successor1**: Narendra Modi
- **office2**: 10th Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha
- **1blankname2**: Chairman
- **primeminister2**: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- **term start2**: 21 March 1998
- **term end2**: 21 May 2004
- **predecessor2**: Sikander Bakht
- **successor2**: Jaswant Singh
- **office3**: 22nd Ministry of Finance (India), Union Minister of Finance
- **primeminister3**: P. V. Narasimha Rao
- **term start3**: 21 June 1991
- **term end3**: 16 May 1996
- **predecessor3**: Yashwant Sinha
- **successor3**: Jaswant Singh
- **death place**: New Delhi, India
- **party**: Indian National Congress
- **nationality**: Indian
- **children**: 3, including Upinder Singh and Daman Singh
- **residence**: 3, Motilal Nehru Marg, New Delhi, Delhi, India
- **awards**: List of awards and honours received by Manmohan Singh, List of awards and honours
- **signature alt**: Manmohan Singh
- **office4**: Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
- **term start4**: 19 August 2019
- **termend4**: 3 April 2024
- **constituency4**: List of Rajya Sabha members from Rajasthan, Rajasthan
- **predecessor4**: Madan Lal Saini
- **successor4**: Sonia Gandhi
- **term start5**: 1 October 1991
- **term end5**: 14 June 2019
- **constituency5**: List of Rajya Sabha members from Assam, Assam
- **predecessor5**: Amritlal Basumatary
- **successor5**: Kamakhya Prasad Tasa
- **office6**: 15th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
- **term start6**: 16 September 1982
- **termend6**: 14 January 1985
- **successor6**: Amitav Ghosh (banker), Amitav Ghosh
- **predecessor6**: I. G. Patel
- **native name**: मनमोहन सिंह
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