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2007-04-26 20:48:19 · 18 answers · asked by karan s 1 in Sports Cricket

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Mr. Manmohan singh is the present prime minister of india.

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Dr. Manmohan Singh (Punjabi: ਮਨਮੋਹਨ ਸਿੰਘ, Hindi: मनमोहन सिंह, literal translation: Charming) is the 17th and current Prime Minister of India. Singh is a member of the Indian National Congress party and became the first Sikh to become Prime Minister of India on May 22, 2004. He is one of the most qualified and influential figures in India's recent history, because of the economic liberalisation he started in 1991 when he was Finance Minister.

Early Life and Family
He was born on 26 September 1932, in Gah, Punjab (now in district Chakwal, Pakistan), into a Kohli family. His economics education included an
*undergraduate (1952) and a master's degree (1954) from Panjab University, Chandigarh;

an undergraduate degree (1957) from Cambridge University (St. John's College);
and a doctorate (1962) from Oxford University (Nuffield College). (Oxford University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree in June 2005.)
Dr. Singh has been married since 1958; he and his wife, Mrs. Gursharan Kaur, have three daughters.

Career
Dr. Singh is an economist by profession, and has formerly served in the International Monetary Fund.[2] Singh is also known to be an unassuming politician, enjoying a formidable, highly respected and admired image.[3] Due to his work at the UN, International Monetary Fund and other international bodies, he is very highly respected around the world. He was awarded the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award in 2002. Before becoming prime minister, he served as the finance minister under Prime Minister Narasimha Rao. He is widely credited for transforming the economy in the early 90s, during the financial crisis. He served as leader of the opposition, in the Upper house, from 1998 - 2004 when the Bharatiya Janata Party led coalition government was in office.

His economic policies - which included the gradual doing away of several socialist policies - were popular, especially among the middle class. He enjoys strong support among the middle and educated classes of India due to his educational background. Singh lost his seat in the Lok Sabha from South Delhi in 1999. He is thus the only Indian Prime Minister never to have been an elected member of the Lower House of Parliament. He has been a member of the Rajya Sabha for Assam since 1991. He is a native Punjabi language speaker.


Economic reforms and ascent to power

Singh served as the governor of the Reserve Bank of India in the late 1980s, and was elevated to finance minister in 1991 by Prime Minister Narasimha Rao.

Dr. Singh is widely regarded as the architect of India's original economic reform programme which was enacted in 1991 under Rao's administration. The economic liberalization package pushed by Singh and Rao opened the nation to foreign direct investment and reduced the red tape that had previously impeded business growth. The liberalization was prompted by an acute balance-of-payments crisis whereby the Indian government was left without sufficient reserves to meet its obligations, and had begun preparations to mortgage its gold reserves to the Bank of England in order to obtain the cash reserves needed to run the country.

Many see the 1991 liberalization as the first of a series of economic liberalizations throughout the 1990s and 2000s that have raised India's growth rates substantially since the early 1990s. Despite its economic liberalization policies, Rao's government was defeated in the next election.

Opposition and 2004 election
Dr. Singh stayed with the Congress Party despite continuous marginalization and defeats in the elections of 1996, 1998 and 1999. He did not join the rebels in a major split which occurred in 1999, when three Congress leaders objected to Sonia Gandhi's rise as Congress President and Leader of the Opposition. Being touted as the Congress choice for the PM's job, she became a target of nationalists who objected to her Italian birth. It seemed that a party which turned to old links in the Nehru family and a foreigner for political leadership had no future or potential to look forward to. But Dr. Singh continued to stay on as a leader within the party, most notably helping to revamp the party's platform and organization.

An alliance led by the Congress Party won a surprisingly high number of seats in the Parliamentary elections of 2004. The Left Front decided to support a coalition government led by the Congress Party from the outside. Sonia Gandhi was elected leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party and was expected to become the Prime Minister. In a surprise move, she declined to accept the post and instead nominated Dr. Singh. He secured the nomination for prime minister on May 19, 2004 when President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam officially asked him to form a government. Although most expected him to head the Finance Ministry himself, he entrusted the job to P. Chidambaram.

His appointment is notable as it comes 20 years after India witnessed significant tensions between the Indian central government and the Punjabi Sikh community; When Congress Party Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the mother-in-law of Sonia Gandhi, ordered central government troops to storm the Golden Temple (the holiest site of Sikhism) in Amritsar, Punjab to quell a separatist terrorist movement, she was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. The result was a tremendous nationwide crisis, in which many innocent Sikhs were murdered in riots allegedly at the behest of Congress party heavyweights, in response to the murder of the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.


Tenure as Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh with US President, George W. Bush at the Oval Office.Dr. Singh's image is of a formidable intellectual, a political leader of integrity, someone who is compassionate and attentive to common people, and as a recognised technocrat. Although legislative achievements have been few and the Congress-led alliance is routinely hampered by conflicts, Singh's administration has focused on reducing the fiscal deficit, providing debt-relief to poor farmers, extending social programs and advancing the pro-industry economic and tax policies that have launched the country on a major economic expansion course since 2002. Singh has been the image of the Congress campaign to defuse religious tensions and conflicts and bolster political support from minorities like Muslims, Christians and Sikhs.

The Prime Minister's foreign policy has been to continue the new peace process with Pakistan initiated by his predecessor, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Exchange visits by top leaders from both countries have highlighted this year, as has reduced terrorism and increased prosperity in the state of Kashmir.


Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shakes hands with U.S. Vice President **** Cheney after delivering a speech to the Joint session of the United States Congress as Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert looks on.His government has also tried hard to build stronger relations with the United States, People's Republic of China and European nations. But the Government suffered a setback when it lost the support of a key ally, African Union members, for its bid for a permanent membership to the U.N. Security Council with veto privileges.

Dr. Singh is known as a bold leader. He made it clear in his address to Parliament in 2006 regarding his Nuclear Deal with US. He said he believed in taking India to new heights. Energy scarcity is hampering progress of the country. The speech gave signal of a new Manmohan Singh, who compelled his fellow parliamentarians to take a step forward for India's sake. He reminded them of the fears and anxities that existed when he announced reforms in the early 1990s. Finally, the whole parliament, including the leftists, gave him support on the nuclear issue.


Dr. Manmohan Singh's career
First Class Honours degree in Economics, University of Cambridge, (1957)
Punjab University, Chandigarh, India
Senior Lecturer, Economics (1957-1959)
Professor of International Trade (1969-1971)
Reader (1959-1963)
Professor (1963-1965)
D. Phil in Economics, Nuffield College at Oxford University, (1962)
Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
Honorary Professor (1996)
Chief, Financing for Trade Section, UNCTAD, United Nations Secretariat, New York
1966 : Economic Affairs Officer 1966
Economic Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Trade, India (1971-1972)
Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, India, (1972-1976)
Honorary Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (1976)
Director, Reserve Bank of India (1976-1980)
Director, Industrial Development Bank of India (1976-1980)
Secretary, Ministry of Finance (Department of Economic Affairs), Government of India, (1977-1980)
Governor, Reserve Bank of India (1982-1985)
Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of India, (1985-1987)
Advisor to Prime Minister of India on Economic Affairs (1990-1991)
Finance Minister of India, (June 21, 1991 - May 15, 1996)
Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha
Prime Minister of India (May 22, 2004 - Present)

2007-04-26 21:19:05 · answer #1 · answered by ramsundar 5 · 0 1

Dr. Manmohan Singh is the Prime Minister of India.

2007-04-27 10:31:55 · answer #2 · answered by vakayil k 7 · 0 0

Manmohan Singh.

2007-04-27 05:18:36 · answer #3 · answered by Aksum 2 · 0 0

Hey the Prime minister of India is

"Manmohan singh "

2007-04-26 20:55:53 · answer #4 · answered by zapper143 2 · 0 0

Mr. Manmohan singh is the present prime minister of india.

2007-04-27 13:26:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Real or Official... Official prime minister of India is Dr. Manmohan Singh and the real one is Sonia Gandhi.

2007-04-26 23:06:49 · answer #6 · answered by ashish k 2 · 0 0

Dr. Manmohan Singh is the prime minister.... But what is that ques doing in the Cricket World Cup Forum???? Don't tell me the prime minister is gonna become indian cricket team selector.... I dont see any other reason why that ques is here....

2007-04-26 23:36:44 · answer #7 · answered by Reflectionist 3 · 0 0

MOHAN THE NAME OF THE LORD SRIKRISHNA . WHY MANMOHAN AND THEN SINGH ALSO.I CALL HIS NAME MOHAN AS LOVE. DO NOT I HAVE RIGHT TO LOVE HIM .WHAT THE COUNTRYMEN THINKS THAT I SHOULD NOT CALL HIS NAME BY MOHAN. IF IT IS THE QUESTION OF EGO THEN I WOULD SAY GANDHI JI WAS AGAINST THE EGO . SO PERHAPS I AM NOT WRONG , STILL IF I AM WRONG THEN HE SHOULD TREAT ME AS A MAD PERSON. THANKS . BECAUSE I AM REALLY FEELING THAT I AM NOBODYELSE OTHER THAN A MAD MAN. THESE MAD MANS DO NOT HAVE RIGHT TO ANSER IF YES THEN HOW TO STOP IT. IT IS THE PROBLEM OF YAHOO. NOT ME AND NOT WITH THE PRIMEMINISTER OF INDIA

2007-04-26 21:21:47 · answer #8 · answered by KrishanRam(Jitendra k) 3 · 0 0

dr. manmohan singh

2007-04-26 21:00:49 · answer #9 · answered by sabi2010 1 · 0 0

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2007-04-26 20:56:35 · answer #10 · answered by Volcom 1 · 0 1

Indai? I don't know.

2007-04-26 21:25:52 · answer #11 · answered by deadmanwalking 4 · 0 0

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