Today, on 26 September, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is celebrating his 92nd birthday. Manmohan Singh is counted among the veteran leaders of Congress. Let us tell you that from 2004 to 2014, he was the Prime Minister of the country in the UPA government. Apart from being the Prime Minister of the country, Manmohan Singh has also been an educationist, bureaucrat and economist. Apart from this, he was the Finance Minister in the Manmohan Singh Narasimha Rao government from 1991 to 1996. So let us know about some interesting things related to the life of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the occasion of his birthday…
Manmohan Singh’s journey
Manmohan Singh was born on 26 September 1932 in a village in the Punjab province of undivided India. In the year 1948, he passed the matriculation examination from Punjab University. Then for further studies, he went from Punjab to Cambridge University in Britain. Where he obtained an economics degree in the year 1957. After this, Manmohan Singh also received a degree from Oxford University. In the year 1971, he joined the Ministry of Commerce of the Government of India as an economic advisor. Immediately after this, in the year 1972, Manmohan Singh was appointed Chief Economic Advisor in the Finance Ministry.
Members of Rajya Sabha
Manmohan Singh, who is considered the architect of economic reforms, was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1991 to 2024. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha for the first time in 1991. Then he was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1995, 2001, 2007 and 2013. From 1998 to 2004, there was a Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Center. Then Manmohan Singh was the leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha. Although he also tried his luck in the Lok Sabha elections, he was not successful in winning.
Rajya Sabha MP
Let us tell you that in 1999, Congress had fielded Manmohan Singh as its candidate from South Delhi. But then Manmohan Singh had to face defeat at the hands of BJP candidate Vijay Kumar Malhotra. During this time, BJP candidate Vijay Kumar Malhotra got 2,61,230 votes. Manmohan Singh got 2,31,231 votes. While independent candidate Mohammad Sharif was in third place. Even after facing defeat, Manmohan Singh remained a Rajya Sabha MP for 33 consecutive years.
Apart from this, Dr. Singh also worked on many other government posts. He was the Secretary in the Finance Ministry. He was also the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission. Along with this, Manmohan Singh was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and the Advisor to the Prime Minister and the Chairman of the University Grants Commission. He was the Finance Minister of the country from 1991 to 1996, during which the country was going through an economic crisis. During this period, the world still salutes the contribution of Dr. Manmohan Singh towards economic reforms.
