Family Career Facts About Manmohan Singh was born on 26 September 1932 in Gah (Punjab) which is now in Pakistan. He was born in a Sikh family. His mother had died in his childhood, after which he was brought up by his grandmother.

Manmohan Singh was the finance minister who ushered in economic reforms in 1991. The credit goes more to Narasimha Rao for showing the political will to do it despite having a minority government. Manmohan Singh as PM did not have the political will to rule over powerful ministers like P. Chidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee on many matters.