RIP Manmohan Singh | Top quotes from India's former PM

Singh's death was announced by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, where he was admitted in the emergency ward around 8:30 pm in a critical condition on Thursday.

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic reforms, passed away on Thursday night. He was 92.

Singh's death was announced by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, where he was admitted in the emergency ward around 8:30 pm in a critical condition.

An AIIMS bulletin said "he was treated for age related medical conditions and had sudden loss of consciousness at home" on December 26.

Singh, who was Finance Minister under the then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, was the architect and the brainchild of economic reforms in 1991 that pulled India from the brink of bankruptcy and ushered in an era of economic liberalisation that is widely believed to have changed the course of India's economic trajectory.

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Apart from his contribution to the economy of the country, Singh has also left behind a series of wise words for generations to remember him by. Here we list for you some of his several noteworthy quotes:

- "I honestly hope history would be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, the opposition parties in Parliament," he had said famously in January 2004.

- "A loser is one who has given up on his dreams, so long as you are trying, you haven't lost yet!"

- "I would be the last person to say there is no scope for doing more."

- "In matters of state, one has to be full of sentiments, but one can never be sentimental."

- Singh was highly critical of the demonetisation exercise by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government in 2016 and termed it "organised loot and legalised plunder".

- In reply to the no-confidence motion against his government in 2008, Singh demonstrated tremendous political insight, saying, "The greatness of democracy is that we are all birds of passage! We are here today, gone tomorrow! But in the brief time that the people of India entrust us with this responsibility, it is our duty to be honest and sincere in the discharge of these responsibilities."

(With PTI inputs)