Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the initiator of India’s economic reforms, passed away on Thursday night. He was 92 years old.
Singh’s death was announced by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, where he was admitted to the emergency ward at 8.30 pm in a critical condition.
“He was treated for age-related medical conditions and suddenly fainted at home,” the AIIMS bulletin said on December 26.
“Resuscitation measures were immediately started at home. He was brought to the medical emergency at AIIMS Delhi at 8.06 am. Despite all efforts, he could not be revived and was declared brought dead at 9.51 am,” the bulletin said.
Singh, who served as prime minister for two terms in the Congress-led UPA government from 2004 to 2014, had been in poor health for the past few months.
He is survived by his wife Gurcharan Singh and three daughters.
Singh, who was finance minister under then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, was the architect and brainchild of the economic reforms in 1991 that lifted India from the brink of bankruptcy and ushered in an era of economic liberalization that is widely believed to have transformed the economy. Course of India’s Economic Projection.