When US Sought Help From Manmohan Singh During Financial Crisis (Facebook image @Barack Obama)

The former Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh died at the age of 92. The visionary leader, and economist was respected by major world leaders for his deep rooted and marvelous economic skills. Singh has served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 – 2014. There was a time, even America, the country which was often dubbed as the greatest power in the world, sought help from Manmohan Singh.

During a time when Singh was under attack by the ruling BJP, former US President Barak Obama opened up about how he helped during a time of financial crisis for Washington. Obama said Singh was a great support in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

“(Manmohan) Singh was the primary partner while we were working during the financial meltdown (of 2008)”, Obama said while at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. The former US President admired the economist as a “great” friend who laid the foundations of modern Indian economy.

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“I was also great friends with (Manmohan) Singh… When you look at the steps Singh took to modernising the economy, it was the foundation for modernising Indian economy”.

Obama also wrote about Singh in his memoir. He called the former Prime Minister the “chief architect of India’s economic transformation” and “wise, thoughtful, and scrupulously honest”.

Singh was a “self-effacing technocrat who’d won the people’s trust not by appealing to their passions but bringing about higher living standards and maintaining a well-earned reputation for not being corrupt”, the former US President wrote in his memoir.

“While he would be cautious in foreign policy, unwilling to get out too far ahead of an Indian bureaucracy that was historically suspicious of US intentions, our time together confirmed my initial impression of him as a man of uncommon wisdom and decency”, Obama wrote.

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Dr Manmohan Singh is one of the greatest leaders of India. His legacy is one of economic growth, social development, and political stability.

He died at the age of 92 on Thursday, December 26, 2024. He was rushed to AIIMS Delhi’s emergency department earlier in the evening after his health took a turn for the worse. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) announced with profound grief that former Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh passed away on December 26, 2024, at the age of 92. According to the hospital, Dr. Singh was being treated for age-related medical conditions and suffered a sudden loss of consciousness at home.