Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh died at the age of 92.
Singh is one of India’s longest-serving prime ministers, serving as prime minister from 2004 to 2014 and finance minister before that, and is considered the architect of key liberalizing economic reforms.
According to reports, he was admitted to a hospital in the capital Delhi after his health condition deteriorated.
Singh was the first Indian leader since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected to a full first term, and the first Sikh leader to hold the country’s highest office. He made a public apology in Parliament for the 1984 riots in which about 3,000 Sikhs were killed.
However, his second term was marred by a series of corruption allegations that plagued his administration. Many say the scandal was partly responsible for his Congress party’s crushing defeat in the 2014 general elections.
Singh was born on September 26, 1932, in a desolate village in the Punjab region of India that lacked water and electricity.
After graduating from Panjab University, he obtained a master’s degree from Cambridge University and a DPhil from Oxford.
While studying at Cambridge, Singh suffered from lack of funds and his daughter, Daman Singh, wrote a book about her parents.
