| Name(s) |
Pamulaparti Venkata
(P.V.) Narasimha Rao |
| Date of
Birth |
June 28, 1921
– Vangara, the then Hyderabad State, India |
| Date of
death |
December 23, 2004
– New Delhi, India |
|
Identity |
The 9th Prime
Minister of India |
|
Date-wise
Events / Works |
June 21, 1991 - Became the Prime Minister of
India.
May 16, 1996 - Retired from the office of the
Prime Minister of India. |
|
Other Events &
Developments |
- He was an Indian lawyer,
politician and freedom fighter.
- He was a versatile
personality with interests
in a variety of subjects (other than
politics) such as literature and
computer software (including
computer programming).
- He spoke 17 languages.
- He had also been Minister of
Defence, Minister of External
Affairs, Minister of Home Affairs of
India as well as Chief Minister of
Andhra Pradesh.
- He and his team managed a
major economic and security
reforms:
- As Industries Minister, he
was personally responsible for
the dismantling of the
Licence Raj.
- He is often referred
to as the "Father of
Indian Economic Reforms".
- He reversed the
socialist policies of
the previous government.
- He deployed Dr.
Manmohan Singh as his Finance
Minister to embark on
historic economic transition.
- With Rao's mandate,
the Finance Minister launched
India's globalisation angle of
the reforms that implemented the
IMF policies to rescue the
almost bankrupt nation from
economic collapse.
- Rao was also referred to as
Chanakya for
his ability to steer tough
economic and political
legislation through the
parliament at a time when he
headed a minority government.
- His term as Prime Minister
was an eventful
one in India's history.
- He made a paradigm
shift from the
industrialising, mixed economic
model of Jawaharlal Nehru to a
market driven
one.
- He died in 2004 of a heart
attack in New Delhi. He was
cremated in Hyderabad.
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