Dr Manmohan Singh’s Legacy Continues To Form India: UK Overseas Secretary
London:
Britain’s Secretary of State for Overseas Affairs David Lammy has hailed the daring financial reforms of Dr Manmohan Singh as a legacy which continues to form trendy India.
In a social media tribute to the previous prime minister who was cremated in New Delhi on Saturday, David Lammy additionally credited Singh for laying the foundations of the “thriving” bilateral partnership between India and the UK.
“Dr Manmohan Singh’s daring financial reforms remodeled India’s economic system,” Mr Lammy mentioned in a publish on X on Friday night.
“His legacy continues to form trendy India, and his imaginative and prescient laid the foundations for right this moment’s thriving UK-India partnership. My deepest condolences to his household and the Indian individuals,” he mentioned.
Manmohan Singh, who was prime minister between 2004 and 2014 and finance minister earlier than that, has been extensively hailed the world over because the architect of India’s financial liberalisation.
He died aged 92 and was laid to relaxation with full state honours in a ceremony attended by main political dignitaries and included a 21-gun salute.
Following his loss of life on Thursday evening, the federal government declared seven days of nationwide mourning.
Earlier, British Excessive Commissioner to India Lindy Cameron took to social media to pay tribute to “an important Prime Minister, Finance Minister and world statesman who superior India’s pursuits by means of daring financial reforms and performed a key function in placing India in its rightful place on the world stage and stabilising the worldwide economic system after the monetary disaster”.
“The UK will at all times be happy with his invaluable partnership with three UK Prime Ministers, and happy with him as an alumnus of two of our nice universities. My ideas and needs are together with his household and the individuals of India,” she mentioned.
Dr Singh’s tenure overlapped with Labour prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and Conservative David Cameron, who later wrote in his memoir that he “acquired on properly” with this “saintly man” who was strong on the threats India confronted.
“On a later go to he informed me that one other terrorist assault like that in Mumbai in July 2011, and India must take army motion towards Pakistan,” notes the previous UK PM in ‘For the Document’, revealed in 2019.
The Guardian’ newspaper referenced Dr Singh’s “trademark sky-blue turbans and home-spun white kurta pyjamas” in its obituary.
“Singh, referred to as India’s ‘reluctant prime minister’ attributable to his shyness and desire for being behind the scenes, was thought of an unlikely selection to guide the world’s greatest democracy. However when Congress chief Sonia Gandhi led her occasion to a shock victory in 2004, she turned to Singh to be prime minister,” the newspaper notes.
The BBC, in its obituary, hailed Dr Singh as one among India’s longest-serving prime ministers who was thought of the “architect of key liberalising financial reforms, as premier from 2004-2014 and earlier than that as finance minister”.
“In his maiden speech as finance minister he famously quoted Victor Hugo, saying that ‘no energy on Earth can cease an thought whose time has come’. That served as a launchpad for an bold and unprecedented financial reform programme: he minimize taxes, devalued the rupee, privatised state-run firms and inspired overseas funding,” reads the report.
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