Manmohan Singh is the 13th and current Prime Minister of India.
He is the only Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after
completing a full five-year term. He is the first Sikh to hold the office.
Singh is also the 7th Prime Minister belonging to the Indian
National Congress party. Singh previously carried out economic reforms in India
in 1991, during his tenure as the Finance Minister, under the leadership of P.
V. Narasimha Rao, from 1991 to 1996. These reforms resulted in the end of the
Licence Raj system, helping to open the Indian economy to greater international
trade and investment.
In 2010, Newsweek magazine recognized him as a world leader who
is respected by other heads of state, describing him as "the leader other
leaders love." The article quoted Mohamed ElBaradei, who remarked that Dr.
Singh is "the model of what a political leader should be."
Singh is number 18 on the 2010 Forbes list of the world's most
powerful people. Forbes magazine described Singh as being "universally
praised as India's best prime minister since Nehru".
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