Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from Congress ended his 33-year-long parliamentary tenure on Wednesday. Singh was one of the nine union ministers and 44 other MPs who served in the Upper House.
As per reports, veteran Congress leader Sonia Gandhi will fill the vacant Rajya Sabha seat after Manmohan Singh’s tenure ends. Gandhi is set to enter the Rajya Sabha for the first time.
It was in 2004 that Singh became the country’s first Congress prime minister. He had previously served as finance minister in the Narasimha Rao government between 1991 and 1996.
Singh is 91 years old. He was the first member of the Upper House in October 1991.
In February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi bid farewell to the retiring Rajya Sabha MPs and praised former Prime Minister and Congress stalwart Manmohan Singh for his contribution to democracy. Modi said that Singh’s contribution to the country will be remembered for a long time.
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He also recalled that Singh came to the Parliament in a wheelchair to cast his vote, saying he set an example for other MPs to perform their duties. “I remember in the other House, during the voting, it was known that the treasury bench would win, but Dr Manmohan Singh came in his wheelchair and cast his vote. This is an example of a member being alert of his duties,” Modi said.
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