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full screen Former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh. Archive image. Photo: Saurabh Das/AP/TT
India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was responsible for major economic reforms in the country, has died aged 92. The death notice came from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.
India “mourns the loss of one of the country’s most prominent leaders,” Modi wrote on social networks, praising Singh’s “comprehensive efforts to improve people’s lives” in his brief text.
Singh was Prime Minister from 2004–2014. During the first term, India saw a successful economic development that made the country a significant economic power factor regionally and globally. But in Singh’s second term, the economic miracle came to a halt.
Singh’s legacy is celebrated across a broad political spectrum in India. Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi wrote that he had “lost a mentor and a guide”, and that Singh “guided India with immense wisdom and integrity”.
Singh died in hospital after losing consciousness at his home in Delhi.