Mr.P. V. Narasimha Rao the 9th prime minister of India.(1991–1996)

P. V. Narasimha Rao(28 June 1921)also known as Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the 9th Prime Minister of India, from 1991–1996 (4 years, 330 days),he was the first holder of this office from a non-Hindi-speaking region belonging to the southern part of India who held the Industries portfolio, was personally responsible for the dismantling of the Licence Raj.

He is often referred to as the "Father of Indian Economic Reforms"Future prime ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh continued the economic reform policies pioneered by Rao's government.Unlike Nehru, his knowledge of Sanskrit was profound. Nehru had a temper, PV a temperament this sentence was said by Natwar singh.11th President of India APJ Abdul Kalam described Rao as a "patriotic statesman who believed that the nation is bigger than the political system" Kalam acknowledged that Rao in fact asked him to get ready for nuclear tests in 1996 but they were not carried out as government at center got changed due to 1996 general election later it was carried out by Vajpayee the 10th and 13th prime ministerof India.

Many people said that raos term of prime minister was an eventful one in India's history.He was an inspiration to many of the youth in india.He became a role model to many of the politicians,his experience was an live example,his way of defending others and his smile on the face this all made people to love him more and more as a leader.

PERSONAL BACKGROUND

PV Narasimha Rao had humble social origins. He was born in a village in Warangal District, now in Telangana, but later adopted and brought to Vangara village of Bheemadevarapalli mandal of Karimnagar district in Telangana, then part of Hyderabad State, Popularly known as PV, he completed part of his primary education in Katkuru village of Bheemdevarapalli mandal in Karimnagar district by staying in his relative Gabbeta Radhakishan Rao's house and studying for his Bachelor's degree in the Arts college at the Osmania University. He later went on to Hislop College, now under Nagpur University, where he completed a Master's degree in law.

Rao's mother tongue was Telugu, and he had an excellent command of Marathi. In addition to eight other Indian languages (Hindi, Oriya, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Sanskrit, Tamil and Urdu), he spoke English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German 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.Both PV and Sadasiva Rao contributed articles under the pen-name Jaya-Vijaya.when he was three years old.His father, P. Sitarama Rao, and mother, Rukminiamma, hailed from agrarian families.

• He was married to Satyamma and had eight children with her—three sons and five daughters. His wife died in 1970, leaving him a distraught widower for the rest of his life.

• He was a scholar who spoke 17 languages and had a profound interest in literature. He was a prolific reader and wrote fiction in Telugu, Marathi, and Hindi. He had also once served as the chairman of the Telugu Academy in Andhra Pradesh (1968–74)

• He suffered a heart attack on 9 December 2004 and died 14 days later on 23 December 2004, at the age of 83.

FAMILY BACKGROUND

Narasimha Rao had three sons and five daughters. His eldest son P.V. Rangarao was an education minister in Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy's cabinet and MLA from Hanamakonda Assembly Constituency, in Warangal District for two terms. His second son, Late P.V. Rajeswara Rao, was a Member of Parliament of the 11th Lok Sabha (15 May 1996 – 4 December 1997) from Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency.

1. Father - Shri P. Ranga Rao

2. Mother- Rukminiamma Rao

3. Spouse-Satyamma Rao

4. Brother-P.V. Madhav Rao

5. Sons-P. V. Ranga Rao,P.V. Rajeshwar Rao,P.V. Prabhakar Rao

6. Daughters-Saraswathi Sarath,Vijaya Prasad,Sharada Venkata Kishan Rao,Vani Dayakar Rao,Jaya Nandan

7. Languages-Telugu,Marathi,Hindi, Oriya, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Sanskrit, Tamil,Urdu,English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German and Persian

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

He completed his Bachelor's degree in the Arts college at the Osmania University,He later went on to Hislop College, now under Nagpur University, where he completed a Master's degree in law.

P.v Narsimha Rao used to edit a Telugu weekly magazine called Kakatiya Patrika in the 1940s.Both PV and Sadasiva Rao contributed articles under the pen-name Jaya-Vijaya.

POLITICAL CAREER

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 (1962–1971) and as Chief minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh (1971–1973).

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 (1975 - 77). He rose to national prominence in 1972 for handling several diverse portfolios, most significantly Home, Defence and Foreign Affairs (1980-1984), 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 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.

BOOKS WRITTEN

Ayodhya- 6 December 1992

The Insider-1998

India and the Asia-Pacific: Forging a New Relationship-1994

Antargatha

A Long Way: Selected Speeches-2002

The Quest for Peace - 1986

Despite being the Leader of Opposition in Parliament when PV was the Prime Minister, L.K.Advani once remarked that PV was the best prime minister the country had after Lal Bahadur Shastri. This wholesome praise from such a worthy opponent seems to ring so true even today.