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India’s former prime minister Manmohan Singh, who liberalized the economy and then led the country through a period of rapid economic growth, has died.

Singh, 92, was being treated for age-related medical conditions, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi said, as it announced his death on Thursday.

The set of economists trained at Oxford university India on a path to becoming a fast-growing economy as finance minister from 1991 to 1996, when he opened the country to more foreign trade and private investment.

Singh was then a surprise pick of the Congress party to become the prime minister after winning the parliamentary elections in 2004.

Companion a growth rate by nearly 7 percent, Singh’s decade as premier was marred by accusations of widespread corruption against his party’s leaders, although his personal integrity was rarely questioned.

Singh was accused of inaction and opposition parties claimed that he was subservient to the then Congress chief, Sonia Gandhi.

Before the Congress lost the elections to Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party in 2014, Singh said in a speech in parliament that “history is kinder to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter the opposition parties”.

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