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Manmohan Singh

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The Right Honourable Dr. Manmohan Singh
Date of birth	26 September 1932(age 84)
Place of birth	Gah, Punjab, British India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Spouse	Gursharan Kaur (1958 � present)
Children	Upinder Daman Singh Amrit
Residence	Panchavati (Official) Guwahati, Assam (Private)
Alma mater	Panjab University, Chandigarh St John's College, Cambridge Nuffield College, Oxford
Profession	Economist Civil servant Social worker Professor
Religion	Sikhism
Prime Minister of India
Assumed office	22 May 2004
President	Abdul Kalam Pratibha Patil
Preceded by	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Minister of Railways
In office	19 May 2011 - 13 July 2011
President	Pratibha Patil
Succeeded by	Dinesh Trivedi
Preceded by	Mamata Banerjee
Minister of Finance
In office	30 November 2008 - 24 January 2009
Succeeded by	Pranab Mukherjee
Preceded by	P. Chidambaram
In office	21 June 1991 - 16 May 1996
Prime minister	Narasimha Rao
Succeeded by	Jaswant Singh
Preceded by	Yashwant Sinha
Minister of External Affairs
In office	6 November 2005 - 24 October 2006
Succeeded by	Pranab Mukherjee
Preceded by	Kunwar Natwar Singh
Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission
In office	15 January 1985 - 31 August 1987
Prime minister	Rajiv Gandhi
Succeeded by	Punjala Shiv Shankar
Preceded by	Narasimha Rao
Governor of the Reserve Bank
In office	15 September 1982 - 15 January 1985
Succeeded by	Amitav Ghosh
Preceded by	Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel

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Manmohan Singh (Punjabi: ਮਨਮੋਹਨ ਸਿੰਘ -pamənˈmoːɦən ˈsɪ́ŋɡ; -hns??Hi-ManmohanSingh is the 13th and current Prime Minister of India. He is the only Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after completing a full five-year term . A Sikh, he was the first non-Hindu to occupy the office. Singh is also the 7th Prime Minister belonging to the Indian National Congress party.

Singh previously carried out economic reforms in India in 1991, during his tenure as the Finance Minister, under the leadership of P. V. Narasimha Rao, from 1991 to 1996. These reforms resulted in the end of the Licence Raj system, helping to open the Indian economy to greater international trade and investment.

In 2010, Newsweek magazine recognized him as a world leader who is respected by other heads of state, describing him as "the leader other leaders love." The article quoted Mohamed ElBaradei, who remarked that Dr. Singh is "the model of what a political leader should be." Singh is number 18 on the 2010 Forbes list of the world's most powerful people. Forbes magazine described Singh as being "universally praised as India's best prime minister since Nehru".

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