Budget 1991: What Manmohan Singh promised and what was delivered - The Economic Times

Budget 1991: What Manmohan Singh promised and what was delivered - The Economic Times: "I do not minimise the difficulties that lie ahead on the long and arduous journey on which we have embarked. But as Victor Hugo once said, 'no power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come'. I suggest to this august House that the emergence of India as a major economic power in the world happens to be one such idea. Let the whole world hear it loud and clear. India is now wide awake. We shall prevail. We shall overcome. - Budget Speech, July 24, 1991"