Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh; born 26 September 1932) is an Indian economist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. The first Sikh in office, Singh was also the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth26 September 1932
CityPunjab, India
CountryIndia
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The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.
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The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.
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My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
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India has, of course, aspirations of getting out of its poverty, ignorance and disease, which still afflict millions of people. But I do believe that we have something to offer to the rest of the world, including the United States.
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I thought the building was collapsing, so I ran out into the middle of the street, ... There was smoke all around. Initially I thought there had been a short circuit on the electricity pole. But then I saw the hands of children and young women raining down from the sky.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people.... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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on which I expressed appreciation for his Government's clear and long-held position.
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People across the Indian subcontinent have felt the pain and anguish of those who have lost their loved ones and livelihoods in the earthquake that ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, on both sides of the Line of Control, and parts of Pakistan,
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We don't have a broad based consensus in our coalition for me to assert that I can move forward in a big way,
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We have agreed to cooperate in civilian nuclear energy,
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Our government is ... committed to unconditional dialogue with anyone and everyone in the state who abjures violence,
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Other than that we have accepted everything. They want to give us financial aid, they want to give us medicines, they want to give us relief goods ... already we have accepted,
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Knowledge and education are key to ensuring that the partnership between the people of our two countries continues to grow. I am sure that you will agree that these new relationships will provide a very real platform to allow that to happen
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We continue to be disturbed and dismayed at indications of the external linkages of terrorist groups with the Oct. 29 bombing,