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    Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao(Telugu: ; 28 June 1921 23

    December 2004) who was commonly known as P. V. Narasimha Rao, served as the 10thPrime

    Minister of the Republic of India.

    P.V.Narasimha Rao

    He led one of the most important administrations in India's modern history, overseeing a major

    economic transformation and several incidents affecting national security. Rao accelerated the

    dismantling of the Licence Raj. Rao, also called the "Father of Indian Economic Reforms, is best

    remembered for launching India's free market reforms that rescued the almost bankrupt nation

    from economic collapse. He was also commonly referred to as the Chanakya of modern India

    for his ability to steer tough economic and political legislation through the parliament at a time

    when he headed a minority government.

    Rao's term as Prime Minister was an eventful one in India's history. Besides marking a

    paradigm shift from the industrializing, mixed economic model of Jawaharlal Nehru to a marketdriven one, his years as Prime Minister also saw the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata

    Party(BJP), a major right-wing party, as an alternative to the Indian National Congress which

    had been governing India for most of its post-independence history. Rao's term also saw the

    destruction of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya which triggered one of the worst Hindu-Muslim riots

    in the country since its independence.

    Rao's later life was marked by political isolation due to his association with corruption charges.

    Rao was acquitted on all charges prior to his death in 2004 of a heart attack in New Delhi. He

    was cremated in Hyderabad.

    P.V. Narasimha Rao had "humble social origins".He was born in a Telugu 6000 NiyogiBrahmin

    family at Laknepallyvillage in Warangal District.At the age of 3 years he adopted and brought

    up to Vangara village in the present-day Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh(then part of

    Early Life :

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    Hyderabad State). His father P. Ranga Rao and mother Rukminiamma hailed from agrarian

    families.

    Narasimha Rao was popularly known as PV. He studied Bachelor's in arts college, subedari in

    warangal, and later on went to Fergusson College at the Universities of Mumbai Nagpur now

    under university of Pune where he completed a Master's degree in law He could speak 13

    languages including Urdu,Marathi,Kannada,Hindi,Tamil,Malayalam,Telugu,Sanskrit and Oriya

    with a fluency akin to a native speaker.His mother tongue was Telugu. In addition to eight Indian

    languages, he spoke English, French, Arabic,Spanish, German, Greek, Latin and Persian Along

    with his distant cousin Pamulaparthi Sadasiva Rao,Ch. Raja Narendra and Devulapalli Damodar

    Rao,PV edited a Telugu weekly magazine called Kakatiya Patrika in the 1940s.PV and

    Sadasiva Rao used to contribute articles under the pen-name Jaya-Vijaya.

    Narasimha Rao has three sons and five daughters. His eldest son P.V. Rangarao was an

    education minister in Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy cabinet and MLA from HanmaKonda

    Assembly Constituency for two terms. His second son P.V. Rajeshwar Rao was a Member of

    Parliament of the 11thLok Sabha (15 May 1996- 4 December1997)from secunderabad

    Constituency.

    Narasimha Rao was an active freedom fighter during the Indian Independence movement and

    joined full time politics after independence as a member of the Indian National Congress.

    Narasimha Rao served brief stints in the Andhra Pradesh cabinet (19621971) and as Chief

    minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh (19711973). His tenure as Chief minister of Andhra

    Pradesh is well remembered even today for his land reforms and strict implementation of land

    ceiling acts in Telangana region. President rule had to be imposed to counter the 'Jai Andhra'

    movement during his tenure.

    Political Career :

    When the Indian National Congress split in 1969 Rao stayed on the side of then Prime Minister

    Indira Gandhi and remained loyal to her during the Emergency period (197577).He rose to

    national prominence in 1972 for handling several diverse portfolios, most significantly Home,

    Defence and Foreign Affairs (19801984), in the cabinets of both Indira Gandhi and Rajiv

    Gandhi In fact it is speculated that he was in the running for the post of India's President along

    with Zail Singh in 1982.

    Rao very nearly retired from politics in 1991. It was the assassination of the Congress President

    Rajiv Gandhi that made him make a comeback.As the Congress had won the largest number of

    seats in the 1991 elections, he got the opportunity to head the minority government as Prime

    Minister. He was the first person outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime Minister for

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    five continuous years, the first to hail from South India and also the first from the state of Andhra

    Pradesh. Since Rao had not contested the general elections, he then participated in a by-

    election in Nandyal to join the parliament. N.T.Rama Rao (then leader of the Chief Opposition

    party of Telugu Desam) did not want to put a contestant against Rao, because he was the First

    Prime Minister of India from Andhra Pradesh, and NTR did not want to create an obstacle on his

    path. By that, Rao won from Nandyal with a victory margin of a record 5 lakh (500,000) votes

    and his win was recorded in the Guinness Book Of World Records.His cabinet included Sharad

    Pawar, himself a strong contender for the Prime Minister's post, as defence minister. He also

    broke convention by appointing a non-political economist and future prime minister,Manmohan

    Singh as his finance minister.

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