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STAT	India	Lithuania	HISTORY
Head of state > Term limit for head of state	5 Ranked 71st. The same as Lithuania	5 Ranked 77th.
President	Pranab Mukherjee	Dalia Grybauskaite
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh	Algirdas Butkevicius
Prime Minister > Profile	<p>Mr Singh became prime minister in May 2004 after the Congress Party&#039;s unexpected success in general elections. </p> <p>The party&#039;s president, Sonia Gandhi, the widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, shocked her supporters by declining the top post, apparently to protect the party from damaging attacks over her Italian origin. </p><p>Mr Singh said his priorities were to reduce poverty and to plough on with economic reforms. He stated a desire for friendly relations with India&#039;s neighbours, especially Pakistan. </p> <p>During his first year in office he held together a coalition which included communist allies and ministers accused of corruption. He continued to pursue market-friendly economic policies and oversaw the introduction of nuclear non-proliferation legislation. </p> <p>But his promised &quot;New Deal&quot; for rural India - an attempt to raise the poorest citizens out of poverty - has still to bear fruit, and by 2011 he was facing demands for inquiries into a series of financial scandals.</p> <p>Though Mr Singh has repeatedly promised a crackdown on corruption, his critics say that the accumulation of graft scandals points to a pervasive culture of corruption in his administration.</p> <p>His government also came under intense pressure after the Mumbai attacks of November 2008, which left nearly 200 people dead and prompted a storm of criticism of security arrangements. </p> <p>However, Mr Singh&#039;s Congress-led coalition then went on to score an emphatic victory at general elections in April and May 2009, coming within 11 seats of winning an absolute majority in parliament. </p> <p>The emphatic defeat of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) confounded predictions of a close contest. </p> <p>While still needing the support of some smaller parties, the government looked to be in a much stronger position to pursue economic reforms, particularly against opposition from the left. </p> <p>Mr Singh made his reputation as a finance minister in the early 1990s, under the Narasimha Rao government, when he was the driving force behind economic liberalisation. </p> <p>A Sikh born in West Punjab, Mr Singh is a former International Monetary Fund official and governor of India&#039;s Central Bank. He was educated at Oxford and Cambridge. </p>	<p>Algirdas Butkevicius became prime minister in December 2012, nearly seven weeks after his Social Democratic Party emerged as the biggest party in parliamentary elections.</p> <p>Coalition-building talks between the Social Democrats and their potential partners in government were already well advanced when President Dalia Grybauskaite intervened, saying she could not accept a government that included the Labour Party, which was under investigation after having been accused of electoral and tax fraud.</p> <p>President Grybauskaite later withdrew her veto, on the grounds that the individual ministers nominated by the Labour Party were technocrats rather than party activists and were therefore not implicated in the fraud allegations. </p> <p>Mr Butkevicius&#039;s government has pledged to ease the austerity measures introduced by the previous conservative coalition led by Andrius Kubilius, and one of its first acts after taking office was to raise the minimum wage from 850 litas ($330) to 1,000 litas ($386).</p> <p>He has said that he expects the Lithuanian economy to grow by about 3 percent in 2013, and that the country should be able to meet the economic targets required to adopt the euro by 2015.</p> <p>Born in 1958, Algirdas Butkevicius first trained as an engineer and later gained a doctorate in economics.</p> <p>He joined the Social Democratic Party in 1992 and became an MP for the first time in 1996. He held various ministerial posts during the 2004-2008 Social Democratic minority government, and became the leader of the party in 2009.</p>
Prime Minister > Summary	Manmohan Singh initiated economic reforms in the 1990s	Mr Butkevicius has vowed to reverse some of the austerity measures imposed by the previous government

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