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Quick Basic Facts about P V Narsimha Rao
- Date of Birth – 28 June 1921
- Place of Birth – Warangal district of the then Hyderabad State
- Parents – P Ranga Rao (father), Rukminiamma (mother)
- Spouse – Satyamma Rao
- Date of becoming PM – 21st June 1991
- Election constituency – Nandyal
- Date of Death – 23 Dec 2004 at New Delhi
Personal Life Facts about P V Narsimha Rao
- P V Narsimha Rao was born on 28 June 1921 in Warangal of then Hyderabad State (now Telangana).
- His full name was Pamulapati Venkat Narsimha Rao.
- He was lawyer by profession and gradated from Osmania University
- P V Narsimha Rao was the first Prime Minister of non hindi speaking south Indian state.
- P V Narsimha Rao was the first Prime Minister projected from congress who was outside of Nehru-Gandhi family.
- P V Narsimha Rao along with his cousin were the editors of a weekly telugu magazine Kakatiya Patrika in 40s under the pen-name Jaya-Vijaya.
- Despite of Telugu tongue, he was very fluent and eminent speaker of Marathi and used to address Akhil Bhartiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan quite often.
- P V Narsimha Rao was a multilinguist who apart from mother tongue Telugu knew and speak 14 different languages – Marathi, Telugu, Hindi, Oriya, Bengali, Gujrati, Tamil, Urdu, English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German and Parsian.
- He died of Hear Attack at AIIMS in Delhi on 23 Dec 2004.
Political Life Facts about P V Narsimha Rao
- He worked as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from year 1971 to 1973 in which his work for Land Reforms was quite important.
- He worked on different portfolios of Home Minister, Foreign Minister and Defense Minister under both Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi regime.
- He got the opportunity to head the minority government as tenth Prime Minister after the general election of 1991.
- He won the Nandyal seat in general elections of 1991 by more than 5 Lakh votes which was entered in Guinness Book of World Record.
- He included Sharad Pawar as Defense Minister and a non political face Manmohan Singh who was a economist by profession as Finance Minister in his portfolio.
- P V Narsimha Rao made Subramaniam Swami the chairman of Labor Standards and International Trade who belonged to opposition party.
- He also sent opposition leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee to represent India in United Nations meeting at Geneva which seldom occurs in Indian politics.
- P V Narsimha Rao is also remembered as Father of Economic Reforms of India.
Books Authored by P V Narsimha Rao
- The insider – this book was published by him on after his retirement from active politics. The book is based on his own life.
