For 28 years, a two-room rented space in Guwahati’s Sorumotoria locality had the distinction of being the residence of Manmohan Singh, the 13th prime minister of India who died at 92 of age-related illnesses in New Delhi on Thursday. Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur along with Assam Congress leader Debabrata Saikia and his wife Bandana Saikia at the …
When Manmohan Singh was inducted into Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao’s government for a consequential tenure as the Union finance minister in 1991, it also marked the beginning of his three-decade association with Assam. Rao got Singh, who passed away at 92 in New Delhi on Thursday, elected as a Rajya Sabha member from the northeastern state at the suggestion …
