New Delhi: Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy called former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a ‘visionary leader’ alongside crediting him with laying foundation for the ‘thriving’ India-UK relationship, India Today reported.
Taking to platform X on Friday, Lammy lauded the former prime minister for his ‘bold economic reforms’ that transformed India's economy post 1991.
‘His legacy continues to shape modern India, and his vision laid the foundations for today’s thriving UK-India partnership. My deepest condolences to his family and the Indian people,’ he further added.
When he was the finance minister in 1991, the veteran Congress leader opened up the country’s economy bringing in a sea change.
The widely respected leader, who was the prime minister between 2004 and 2014, died at age 92 on Thursday night.
Meanwhile, British High Commissioner to India Lindy Cameron in a post on X called Manmohan Singh ‘a great Prime Minister, Finance Minister and global statesman who advanced India’s interests through bold economic reforms and played a key role in putting India in its rightful place on the world stage and stabilising the global economy after the financial crisis’.
Lindy Cameron added that the UK will be proud of Dr. Singh’s partnership with three UK Prime Ministers and ‘proud of him as an alumnus of two of our great universities’.
Cremated with full state honours on Saturday, the former Prime Minister’s funeral pyre was lit by his eldest daughter, Upinder Singh at the Nigambodh Ghat.