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Narendra Modi: Before becoming the prime minister of India in 2014, Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat for more than a decade. Modi’s visit to US has encouraged Facebook to support Digital India, Microsoft will be giving broadband connectivity to five lakh villages and Google will be offering free Wi-Fi to five hundred stations apart from including ten languages in the latest versions of Android. Moreover, Apple might manufacture their products in India.
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Manmohan Singh: He is the first Sikh to become the prime minister of India, and was re-elected twice for full five-year term. Singh’s global reputation as a reform-minded economist led him to become the prime minister of India on 22 May, 2004. During his 10-year tenure, Manmohan Singh made several visits to the US, which helped India to form a genuine strategic partnership with the US government. In 2008, the US and India signed a nuclear agreement that would give India access to American nuclear fuel and technology while India will have to allow International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect their civil nuclear reactors.
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee: He had resigned after thirteen days of becoming the prime minister of India in the year 1996. In 1998, Vajpayee served for thirteen months as the prime minister before the Bharatiya Janata Party government lost its strength in Lok Sabha. However, he managed to serve for the third time in the year 1999. During his governance, Bill Clinton had visited India in the year 2000 and signed the ‘Historic Vision Document’ with Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the future course of relations between the two countries.
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Inder Kumar Gujral: He was the prime minister of India for a brief time from April 21, 1997, to March 19, 1998. Gujral’s family played a prominent role in struggle of India’s Independence. During his term, he introduced Gujral Doctrine that spoke about five principles related to foreign policies referring to neighbouring countries. He has been labelled as the most thoughtful and best ‘External Affairs Minister’ that India has had since Jawaharlal Nehru. During Gujral’s visit to US, he suggested then President Bill Clinton to not compromise on Jammu and Kashmir along the speculated lines as it would affect his Government. However, the decision led to America’s neutral stance followed by Kargil war a year later.
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P. V. Narasimha Rao: He was a lawyer before he became India’s prime minister in the year 1991. He was known as the Father of Indian Economic Reforms as brought a major transformation in economy affecting the national security of India. He was the one to dismantle the ‘License Raj’ and create a new unipolar world. He is known as the architect of India's policies. He was the first after Gandhi-Nehru family to become the prime minister, and was not elected by general election. He spoke seventeen languages and translated several literary works into different languages. During his term, the US companies were welcomed by telecom sector in India. The US became the largest investor in India’s infrastructure sector.
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