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Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June 1921 – 23 December 2004), popularly known as P. V. Narasimha Rao, was an Indian lawyer, statesman and politician from the Indian National Congress Party who was Prime Minister of India from 1991 to 1996.
Jul 23, 2021 · How Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh rescued India in 1991 and made history. The reforms were undertaken exactly 30 years ago, at a time when India was facing its worst economic crisis. Here’s a look at what led to the crisis and how India weathered it. Remya Nair.
May 18, 2024 · PV Narasimha Rao was the first Prime Minister from outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to complete his five-year tenure. Two events under his govt changed India forever — the liberalisation of the economy, and the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.
Mar 14, 2023 · While Narasimha Rao has turned a blind eye to the A.K. Antony group’s machinations in Kerala and dismissed the Karnataka rebellion as an “optical illusion”, he has not hesitated to placate them on occasion: as he did in formulating the Karnataka AlCC(I) membership list.
Aug 1, 2024 · P.V. Narasimha Rao was a leader of the Congress (I) Party faction of the Indian National Congress and was the prime minister of India from 1991 to 1996. Widely recognized for his efforts to liberalize the Indian economy in the early 1990’s, Rao was conferred the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, posthumously in 2024.
Dec 23, 2023 · In 1990, Rao heard that then Congress chief Rajiv Gandhi was planning to transition to a younger Cabinet if the party won the next year’s Lok Sabha elections, according to ‘The Man Who Remade India: A Biography of PV Narasimha Rao’, by Vinay Sitapati.
Jun 28, 2021 · Five years of Narasimha Rao’s premiership (1991-96) saw many highs and lows. Rao was India’s first ‘accidental’ prime minister, and a path-breaking one.
Jun 21, 1991 · Shri Narasimha Rao took over as Home Minister on July 19, 1984. He was re-appointed to this post, with the additional charge of the Ministry of Planning, on November 5, 1984. Appointed Minister of Defence from December 31, 1984 to September 25, 1985.
Jul 5, 2021 · In the summer of 1991 with the Lok Sabha campaign in full swing, PV Narasimha Rao, a month short of 70, was campaigning somewhat listlessly for the Congress party when he got news of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination at Sriperumbudur.
P. V. Narasimha Rao (or PV as he was popularly known) has been widely praised for enabling the economic reforms that transformed the country in 1991. From the vantage point of his long personal...
