Narasimha Rao Biography

P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

P.V. Narasimha Rao serves as Minister of External Affairs in Indira Gandhi's government.

P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Minister of Human Resource Development.

P.V. Narasimha Rao again serves as Minister of External Affairs.

Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao launches a wide-ranging programme of economic liberalisation with Finance Minister Manmohan Singh.

Congress emerges as the largest party in the 1991 general election and forms a minority government under P.V. Narasimha Rao.

P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister after the 1991 general election.

India devalues the rupee in two stages as part of its response to the 1991 balance-of-payments crisis.

Rao's government announces a new industrial policy that dismantles much of the industrial licensing system.

India opens the Tin Bigha corridor for Bangladesh under a long-term lease arrangement.

The Seventy-fourth Amendment strengthens constitutional recognition of urban local government.

The Seventy-third Amendment gives constitutional status to Panchayati Raj institutions in rural India.

The Babri Masjid is demolished in Ayodhya, triggering communal violence and a major national political crisis.

The National Human Rights Commission is established under the Protection of Human Rights Act.

India signs the Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization framework.

India becomes a founding member of the World Trade Organization.