P. V. Narasimha Rao
Prime Minister of India (1991-1996) · India · Politicians · Lived 1921 to 2004 · aged 83
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Something wrong?He cracked open India's economy when it was weeks from default. In 1991, with foreign reserves nearly exhausted, Narasimha Rao greenlit the liberalisation that turned a closed, license-permit system into the emerging market the world knows now.
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Visit of Narasimha Rao, Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the CEC (cropped)
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Army, Navy & Air Force personnels, the three wings of services, carrying the mortal remains of the former Prime Minister, Late Shri P V Narasimha Rao towards service aircraft at Palam Airport, New Delhi on December 24
Felicitation by Prime Minister, P.V.Narasimha Rao, 2001
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Kaderbad Ravindranath with P V Narasimha Rao Prime Minister of India
Mohammad Mosaddak Ali met with Prime Minister of India P. V. Narasimha Rao atBangabhaban in Dhaka
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, Every time I say anything, people seize on it for all kinds of meanings so I am uncomfortable with talking.
I believe that the charges are baseless and I knew that I had nothing to worry about on that score. But after one full round in the courts, I was beginning to feel embarrassed.
The Congress president's post is different from others. It used to be called rashtrapati in the old days. There is just one in the whole country.
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Born in 1921, Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao came up through independence activism and the law before entering Congress politics. He served as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, then climbed to Defence, Home Affairs, and External Affairs in the union government. The 1991 general election handed Congress 244 seats - short of a majority - and Rao, with external support, became prime minister, the first from South India and only the second from a non-Hindi-speaking background. The economy was in crisis, foreign reserves nearly gone. He moved fast: opened India to foreign investment, deregulated domestic business, reformed capital markets and the trade regime, stabilised external loans. Every government since has built on that pivot. He left office in 1996. In 2024, two decades after his death, India awarded him the Bharat Ratna.
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