In 1991, as India faced a severe economic crisis, newly elected Prime Minister ................... Rao surprisingly inducted the apolitical Singh into his cabinet as Finance Minister.

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• ........................employed Dr.Manmohan Singh as his Finance Minister to embark on historic economic transition.
• .................... was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the Prime Minister of India (1991–1996).
• Future Prime ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh continued the economic reform policies pioneered by ......................government.
• Along with his cousin Pamulaparthi Sadasiva Rao, ................edited a Telugu weekly magazine called Kakatiya Patrika from 1948 to 1955.
• With .................... mandate, Dr.Manmohan Singh launched India’s globalisation angle of the reforms that implemented the International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies to rescue the almost bankrupt nation from economic collapse.
• ................... started his career as the Prime Minister of independent India in 1947,
• 11th President of India .................... described Rao as a "patriotic statesman who believed that the nation is bigger than the political system".
• ...................... was born in Kesalur, a village in the Tirthahalli taluk in Shimoga district on 3 December 1950 to Ganesh Rao, an agriculturist, as well as a freedom fighter, and Lakshmidevi, a homemaker, one of 10 children (five brothers and four sisters).
• On June 25, ......................prime minister Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency in India citing grave threat to her government and sovereignty of the country from both internal and external forces.
• Soon after becoming the Prime Minister of India, .................created a Ministry of Scientific Research and Natural Resources and actively supported the atomic energy programme for peaceful purposes.