Manmohan Singh: The former Indian Prime Minister has died at the age of 92

Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has died at the age of 92.

Singh was one of India’s longest-serving prime ministers and was considered the architect of key liberalizing economic reforms, as prime minister from 2004 to 2014 and before that as finance minister.

He was admitted to a hospital in the capital Delhi after his health deteriorated, reports said.

Singh was the first Indian leader since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after serving a first full term and the first Sikh to hold the country’s top job. He publicly apologized in parliament for the 1984 riots in which around 3,000 Sikhs were killed.

But his second term has been marred by a series of corruption allegations that have dogged his administration. The scandals, many say, were partly responsible for his Congress party’s crushing defeat in the 2014 general elections.

Singh was born on September 26, 1932, in a desolate village in undivided India’s Punjab province that lacked both water and electricity.

After attending Panjab University, he took an MA at Cambridge University and then a DPhil at Oxford.

While studying at Cambridge, lack of funds troubled Singh, his daughter Daman Singh wrote in a book about her parents.