Former PM and Congress veteran Manmohan Singh ends his 33-year-old innings within the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. (File Picture: PTI)
Identified for his daring financial reforms, 91-year-old Singh first turned a member of the Higher Home in October 1991
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh will finish his 33-year-long parliamentary innings within the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. As many as 9 union ministers and 44 others finish their Higher Home tenure with the veteran Congress chief.
Singh’s exit comes at a time when the previous occasion chief Sonia Gandhi will enter the Rajya Sabha for the primary time. She’s going to fill the vacant Rajya Sabha seat after the tenure completion of the previous PM.
Identified for his daring financial reforms, 91-year-old Singh first turned a member of the Higher Home in October 1991. He first served because the finance minister within the Narasimha Rao authorities (1991-1996) after which as India’s prime minister (2004-2014).
Earlier in February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi bid farewell to the retiring Rajya Sabha MPs and praised former PM and Congress stalwart Manmohan Singh for his contribution to the democracy.
“I need to bear in mind Dr Manmohan Singh at this time, his contribution has been immense. For such a very long time, the way in which he guided this Home and the nation, he’ll all the time be remembered for it.”
He additionally hailed Dr Manmohan Singh for coming to the Parliament in a wheelchair to forged his vote, saying that he set an instance for different MPs to carry out their duties.
“I bear in mind within the different Home, in the course of the voting, it was recognized that the treasury bench would win however Dr Manmohan Singh got here in his wheelchair and forged his vote. This an instance of a member being alert of his duties,” PM Modi mentioned.
Union Atmosphere Minister Bhupendra Yadav and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will full their tenure on Wednesday.
In the meantime, seven different union ministers ended their tenure within the Higher Home on Tuesday. They’re:
- Schooling Minister Dharmendra Pradhan
- Well being Minister Mansukh Mandviya
- Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Minister Purshottam Rupala
- Data Know-how Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar
- MoS Exterior Affairs V Muraleedharan
- Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Narayan Rane
- MoS Data and Broadcasting L Murugan
The entire 9 Union ministers, besides Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, are contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and subsequently haven’t been given one other Rajya Sabha time period. Notably, Vaishnaw and L Murugan have been given one other time period within the Higher Home.
As many 49 members retired on Tuesday, whereas the remainder 5 retired on Wednesday.
Others who retired from the Rajya Sabha embrace Samajwadi Celebration’s Jaya Bachchan, Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Manoj Kumar Jha, Congress’ Naseer Hussain and Abhishek Singhvi, BJP’s nationwide media-in-charge Anil Baduni, BJP ledaer Prakash Javadekar, Sushil Kumar Modi, Anil Jain and Saroj Pandey.
Bachchan, Jha and Hussain have been renominated for one more time period, whereas Singhvi will probably be absent from the Home as he misplaced the election from Himachal Pradesh.
BJP’s Anil Baduni is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Uttarakhand’s Garhwal seat and so is Saroj Pandey from Chhattisgarh. Javadekar, Kumar Modi and Jain haven’t been nominated for one more time period.
(With PTI inputs)
