Manmohan Singh turns 80 Today
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a reluctant birthday boy, turns 80 on Wednesday but will spend the day working as he has done in the past, officials said.
A workaholic, the Prime Minister has shied away from celebrations on his birthday but there have been occasions when he has cut a cake on board his special aircraft during foreign trips.
The Prime Minister will give away the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) awards on the organisation's 70th Foundation Day function.
The Prime Minister is the president of CSIR, whose foundation day coincides with his birthday.
"He will work as usual (on his birthday)," an official said.
Though some political leaders are expected to call on the Prime Minister to greet him, the celebrations will be a low key affair, the official said.
The Prime Minister last week embarked on a series of bold economic measures, including allowing foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail and a cap on the number of cooking gas cylinders.
The decisions, including a hike in diesel prices, cost the government support of the Trinamool Congress.
However, the Prime Minister reached out to people in a nationally televised address on last Friday and told them that the economic policy decisions had been taken in the country's long term interests.
He compared the vehement opposition to FDI in retail to the situation in 1991 when the government opened the country to foreign investment in manufacturing and said the opposition tactics had failed then and will fail now.
Manmohan Singh, who has been Prime Minister since 2004, had also weathered the political storm when the Left parties withdrew support to the government over the India-US nuclear deal during the UPA-I government.
Born in 1932 in Gah Begal village in what is now Punjab province of present-day Pakistan, Manmohan Singh's birthday falls on September 26 because his parents had given it as his date of birth to get him admitted in school.
His family shifted to India during partition.
"Sep 26 is shown in the school records as my date of birth," Manmohan Singh had said when asked about it.
The Prime Minister has celebrated his birthday mid-air on four occasions.
He had cut a cake on his 77th birthday while on board Air India One enroute to Pittsburgh from Geneva and had also done so last year on his flight back from Frankfurt.
A workaholic, the Prime Minister has shied away from celebrations on his birthday but there have been occasions when he has cut a cake on board his special aircraft during foreign trips.
The Prime Minister will give away the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) awards on the organisation's 70th Foundation Day function.
The Prime Minister is the president of CSIR, whose foundation day coincides with his birthday.
"He will work as usual (on his birthday)," an official said.
Though some political leaders are expected to call on the Prime Minister to greet him, the celebrations will be a low key affair, the official said.
The Prime Minister last week embarked on a series of bold economic measures, including allowing foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail and a cap on the number of cooking gas cylinders.
The decisions, including a hike in diesel prices, cost the government support of the Trinamool Congress.
However, the Prime Minister reached out to people in a nationally televised address on last Friday and told them that the economic policy decisions had been taken in the country's long term interests.
He compared the vehement opposition to FDI in retail to the situation in 1991 when the government opened the country to foreign investment in manufacturing and said the opposition tactics had failed then and will fail now.
Manmohan Singh, who has been Prime Minister since 2004, had also weathered the political storm when the Left parties withdrew support to the government over the India-US nuclear deal during the UPA-I government.
Born in 1932 in Gah Begal village in what is now Punjab province of present-day Pakistan, Manmohan Singh's birthday falls on September 26 because his parents had given it as his date of birth to get him admitted in school.
His family shifted to India during partition.
"Sep 26 is shown in the school records as my date of birth," Manmohan Singh had said when asked about it.
The Prime Minister has celebrated his birthday mid-air on four occasions.
He had cut a cake on his 77th birthday while on board Air India One enroute to Pittsburgh from Geneva and had also done so last year on his flight back from Frankfurt.
Karunanidhi greets PM
DMK chief M Karunanidhi greeted Singh on his birthday and said he was playing a "very important role in finding useful solutions to the problems and challenges facing the country."
DMK chief M Karunanidhi greeted Singh on his birthday and said he was playing a "very important role in finding useful solutions to the problems and challenges facing the country."
"The vast population of agriculturists, labourers, poor and downtrodden are looking up to you for fulfilment of their aspirations. I am sure with your profound wisdom and meaningful experience you will meet their expectations," he said in his birthday greetings to the Prime Minister.
Noting that the country was passing through a critical phase in the history of Parliamentary democracy, Karunanidhi, whose DMK is a key ally of ruling Congress, said, "You have been playing a very important role in finding useful solutions to the problems and challenges facing the country."
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy also greeted the Prime Minister on his 80th birthday.
Kiran, camping in Gudivada of Krishna district, called the Prime Minister over phone to extend birthday greetings, an official communication said.
"The CM wished the Prime Minister a long cherished, healthy and successful life," it added.
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MODERN ECONOMICS, AN EMPIRICAL VULGAR PSEUDO SCIENCE- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
Adam Smith the supreme god of economists , was a THIEF who lifted French economist and banker, Richard Cantillon’s work.
Adam Smith , the holy cow, was a CRIMINAL AND MURDERER who killed 120 lakhs ( 10.2 million ) Bengalis in 1769. See some gruesome pictures of the sunk holocaust.
Adam Smith , the crypto agent, was an employed by British East India Company as the one man think tank-- BEIC financiers are now back to India for FDI in multibrand retail.
History always repeats itself—this is why we learn history.
On the Dec 20, 2004 letter, the FAM’s foreign trade committee chairman Chandrakant T. Shanghvi said that Manmohan Singh had categorically told a delegation of the traders’ body that “we should not permit FDI in retail trade… India does not require the kind of reforms which would, rather than creating employment, destroy employment”.
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