Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh admitted in AIIMS | Latest News India

The former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was admitted to the emergency room of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi around 8pm on Thursday.

Sources told PTI that the 92-year-old veteran Congressman’s health is critical.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra arrived at the premier institute to take stock of Singh’s health condition.

Former Rajasthan chief minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot posted on

Singh, who was prime minister from 2004 to 2014, retired from the Rajya Sabha earlier this year, ending his political stint in the upper house after 33 years.

India’s only Sikh Prime Minister entered the Rajya Sabha in 1991, four months after he was sworn in as Finance Minister in the PV Narasimha Rao-led government in June 1991.

He represented Assam in the Upper House for five terms and shifted to Rajasthan in 2019.

His last speech in Parliament was against demonetisation, describing it as “organized looting and legalized looting”.

“Unemployment is high and the informal sector is in shambles, a crisis triggered by the ill-advised demonetisation decision in 2016,” he said at ‘Pratheeksha 2030’, PTI quoted Singh as saying at an event in 2021.

Singyh was born on September 26, 1932 in Punjab and received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Panjab University in 1952 and 1954, respectively.

Dr. Manmohan Singh completed his Economics Tripos from Cambridge University in 1957. He then gained a D.Phil in economics from Oxford University in 1962.

After teaching at Punjab University and the Delhi School of Economics, Singh joined the Indian government in 1971 as an economic advisor in the Ministry of Commerce.

Dr. Manmohan Singh was soon promoted to Chief Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance in 1972.

After a brief stint in the UNCTAD Secretariat, he was appointed Secretary General of the Southern Commission in Geneva from 1987 to 1990. Singh has also held the positions of Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Adviser to the Prime Minister and Chairman of the University Grants Commission.