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Several of the children of former prime ministers have entered politics. Two have become prime ministers themselves, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. P. V. Narasimha Rao had 8 children, the most of any prime minister. Two prime ministers – Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Narendra Modi – have had no biological children. However, Vajpayee had an ...
Since Manmohan Singh became Prime Minister in 2004, she has accompanied him abroad on state visits. The family has largely stayed out of the limelight. Their three daughters – Upinder, Daman and Amrit, have successful, non-political careers. [4] Upinder Kaur is a professor of history at Ashoka University.
Bottom left: Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first non-Congress prime minister to complete a full 5 year term. Bottom center: Manmohan Singh was the first prime minister from a minority religion. Bottom right: Narendra Modi is the only prime minister to be born in independent India and is the longest-serving non-Congress prime minister.
The widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, whose family has dominated Indian politics since independence from Britain in 1947, she remained Congress Party leader and often made key decisions.
The body of Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose death has sparked outpourings of grief at home and accolades from abroad, was cremated on Sunday on the banks of the Yamuna River ...
He was the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi. [2] A member of the Indian National Congress, Singh was the first Sikh prime minister of India. [3] He was also the first prime minister since Nehru to be re-appointed after completing a full five-year term. [4] [5]
India’s former prime minister Manmohan Singh, who steered the country through sweeping reforms and paved the way for its emergence as a global economic powerhouse, has died. He was 92.
Prime Minister Modi at Vajpayee's memorial, Sadaiv Atal The administration of Narendra Modi declared in 2014 that Vajpayee's birthday, 25 December, would be marked as Good Governance Day . [ 190 ] [ 191 ] The world's longest tunnel, Atal Tunnel at Rohtang , Himachal Pradesh, on the Leh-Manali Highway was named after Atal Bihari Vajpayee. [ 192 ]