13th Prime Minister of India
Manmohan Singh
- In office
- 22 May 2004 – 26 May 2014
- Party
- Indian National Congress
- Born in
- Gah, Punjab (now Pakistan)
- Lived
- 1932–2024
- Days in office
- 3,656
- In order
- 2004–2014: after Atal Bihari Vajpayee, before Narendra Modi
Key achievements & events
- As finance minister, was the architect of the 1991 economic reforms
- Signed the India-U.S. civil nuclear agreement (2008)
- Passed the Right to Information Act (2005) and the rural employment guarantee (NREGA)
- Passed the Right to Education Act (2009) and launched Aadhaar ID numbers
- Led a decade of fast economic growth
Remember: The first Sikh prime minister, an Oxford-trained economist and a former governor of the Reserve Bank of India.