Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister
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Famed economist Manmohan Singh first shot to prominence as one of the best Finance Ministers in India’s history. The now 84-year-old is credited with largely single-handedly liberalizing India’s economy under the leadership of former PM PV Narasimha Rao.
Holding premiership under the then-ruling Congress-led UPA (the United Progressive Alliance), Manmohan Singh had succeeded the BJP’s Atal Bihari Vajpayee as Prime Minister. Taking oath in 2004, he would retain the post after the results of the re-election were announced in 2009. Resigning at the end of 2013, Singh served as acting PM until 2014, when the BJP leader Narendra Modi was formally sworn in.
Mr. Modi’s first term runs through to 2018, and he has now become one of the most politically well-known faces worldwide.
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