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P. V. Narasimha Rao Manmohan Singh. The collapse of the Chandra Shekhar government in the midst of the crisis and the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi led to the election of a new Congress government led by P. V. Narasimha Rao. [23]
P. V. Narasimha Rao was sworn in as Prime Minister of India on 21 June 1991. [1] Council of Ministers. Cabinet Ministers. ... Manmohan Singh. 21 June 1991:
Rao wanted I. G. Patel as his Finance Minister. [7] Patel was an official who helped prepare 14 budgets, an ex-governor of the Reserve Bank of India and had headed The London School of Economics. [7] But Patel declined. Rao then chose Manmohan Singh for the job. Manmohan Singh, an acclaimed economist, played a central role in implementing these ...
The Five-Year Plans of India were a series of national development programmes implemented by the Government of India from 1951 to 2017. [1] Inspired by the Soviet model, these plans aimed to promote balanced economic growth, reduce poverty and modernise key sectors such as agriculture, industry, infrastructure and education.
The 1992 Indian stock market scam was a market manipulation carried out by Harshad Mehta with other bankers and politicians on the Bombay Stock Exchange.The scam caused significant disruption to the stock market of India, defrauding investors of over fifteen million USD.
Karunakaran had played a key role in backing the Rao government and later Rao had dismissed him from the chair of Chief Minister of Kerala. [26] [27] His funeral was attended by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the AICC chief Sonia Gandhi. He was cremated with full state honors at his residence in Punkunnam, Thrissur. [28]
After the contest, in 1983, Rao joined the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). He won four consecutive Assembly elections from Siddipet (1985-1999). From 1987 to 1988, he served as the Minister of Drought & Relief in Chief Minister N. T. Rama Rao's cabinet.
Manmohan Singh [a] (26 September 1932 – 26 December 2024) was an Indian politician, economist, nationalist [1] and statesman [2] who served as the prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru , Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi . [ 3 ]