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Former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh admitted to AIIMS.

Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was admitted to the emergency department of Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) around 8 pm on Thursday.

Sources informed PTI that the 92-year-old veteran Congress leader's condition is critical.

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra visited the institute to check on Singh's health.

Former Rajasthan Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot expressed his concern on X, saying, "Deeply concerned about the health of Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh ji. Wishing him a speedy recovery and good health."

Singh, who served as prime minister from 2004 to 2014, retired from the Rajya Sabha earlier this year, marking the end of his 33-year tenure in the Upper House.

India's only Sikh prime minister, Singh entered the Rajya Sabha in 1991, shortly after becoming finance minister in the government of PV Narasimha Rao. He represented Assam for five terms in the Upper House before relocating to Rajasthan in 2019.

His final intervention in Parliament was against demonetisation, calling it an "organised loot and legalised plunder.” At an event in 2021, he remarked, "Unemployment is high, and the informal sector is in shambles, a crisis exacerbated by the ill-considered demonetisation decision of 2016," PTI quoted him as saying.

Born on September 26, 1932, in Punjab, Singh earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Economics from Panjab University in 1952 and 1954, respectively.

He completed his Economic Tripos at Cambridge University in 1957 and went on to receive a D.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University in 1962. Singh taught at Punjab University and the Delhi School of Economics before joining the Government of India as Economic Advisor in the Commerce Ministry in 1971.

He was later promoted to Chief Economic Advisor in the Finance Ministry in 1972. After a brief stint at the UNCTAD Secretariat, Singh served as Secretary General of the South Commission in Geneva from 1987 to 1990. His extensive career also included roles as Secretary in the Finance Ministry, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Advisor to the Prime Minister, and Chairman of the University Grants Commission.

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