Narasimha Rao steered India away from economic crisis: Venkaiah

Vice-President pays rich tributes to former Prime Minister

Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Monday paid rich tributes to former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao on the latter’s birth centenary and described him as a ‘legendary figure who had pioneered economic reforms’, in Visakhapatnam on Monday. “Narasimha Rao was a multi-faceted personality—a phenomenal scholar, an astute administrator, a littérateur of renown and multi-linguist. He had steered the country away from an economic crisis through his consensual leadership and far-sighted vision,” said the Vice-President who garlanded a statue of Narasimha Rao at the Circuit House Junction in Visakhapatnam.