Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was helped by a group of economist, jurist and specialist in their own domain who helped him in good governance and framing polices that proved to have far reaching consequences. some of them where chosen by them and some others where chosen under political compulsions. But those were the people who are still remembered as the men with whom the Cambridge educated economist steered the country in the new direction.

Here is a list of Top 10 People in his cabinet who shaped his decade of governance:

1. Pranab Mukherjee- Minister of Defense: He held defense (2004–06), and finally back to finance (2009–12). He was given a few legislative posts, such as being a leader of the Rajya Sabha from 1980–84, Congress Party whip in the upper house 1996–2004, and leader of the Lok Sabha 2004–12. Mukherjee was also involved with several prominent international organizations, most notably occupying seats on the boards of governors of the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank while serving as Finance Minister.
2. P. Chidambaram- Minister of Finance: After the elections of 2004, when the Congress won the election, he was inducted into the Council of Ministers under Manmohan Singh as cabinet Minister of Finance.
3. K. Natwar Singh- Minister of External Affairs: Kunwar Natwar Singh, former foreign minister, India’s ambassador to Pakistan during a critical period in the relations between the two countries, and an important influence in guiding India’s foreign policy that went far beyond the formal positions he held, died in Delhi at 93.He quit the foreign service to join politics in 1984 and coordinated the Congress party’s position on geopolitics till he fell out with the party authority and left the Congress party in 2008. He was a eminent raconteur and a skilled writer. He served as an external affairs minister in 2004-05 in Manmohan Singh’s government till he was asked to step down after alleged charges of nepotism that he denied vehemently.
4. Montek Singh Ahluwalia- Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission: Montek Singh Ahluwaliaresigned from the IMF position to take up as the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission as part of the United Progressive Alliance government in New Delhi. As deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, he directed the arrangements of both the Eleventh Plan 2007–08 to 2011–12 titled “Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth” and subsequently also the Twelfth Plan 2012–13 to 2016–17 titled “Faster, More Inclusive and Sustainable Growth”.
5. Shivraj V. Patil- Minister of Home Affairs: He became Home Minister in 2004. Shivraj Patil lost in the 2004 polls from Latur, Maharashtra but has still landed up the second most important position in the Union Cabinet—that of the Home Minister. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in July 2004. His tenure as home minister was marred by one debacle after another and he faced increasing calls for his resignation, eventually forcing it due to the mishandling in the events leading up to and after the Taj attack in 2008. 
6. Arjun Singh- Minister of Human Resource Development: Arjun Singh was an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress, who served twice as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in the 1980s. He served twice as the Union Minister of Human Resource Development, in the Manmohan Singh and P. V. Narasimha Rao ministries.
7. C Rangrajan- RBI Governor: Chakravarthi Rangarajan an Indian economist, a former Member of Parliament and 19th governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He is the former chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council.
8. Kamal Nath- Minister of Commerce and Industry: Kamal Nath was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998-1999. From 2001 to 2004, he was the General Secretary of the Congress (INC).^] He was re-elected to the 14Lok Sabha in the 2004 elections and served as Union Cabinet Minister of Commerce and Industry from 2004 to 2009. On 16 May 2009 he again won the elections from his constituency for the 15th Lok Sabha and re-entered the Cabinet, this time as Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways. In 2011, because of a cabinet reshuffle, Nath replaced Jaipal Reddy to take on the role of Minister of Urban Development. In October 2012 Nath was confirmed to the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs in addition to his current role as Minister of Urban Development.
9. Sonia Gandhi: Her leadership led Congress to win UPA an unequivocal larger part in the 2009 general elections with Manmohan Singh being the Prime Minister. The Congress won 206 seats in Lok Sabha, which was at that point the most elevated by any party since 1991. She was re-elected to a third term as a part of parliament serving as the representative of Rae Bareli. In 2013, she got to be the first person to serve as Congress President for 15 years continuously. In the same year, Gandhi condemned the Supreme Court judgement supporting Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and supported LGBT rights.
10. Ghulam Nabi Azad- Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Urban Development:  During the second United Progressive Alliance Government, led by Manmohan Singh, Azad was sworn in as the Health Minister of India. He was elected to Rajya Sabha for the fourth and fifth terms from Jammu and Kashmir during the term of 30 November 1996 to 29 November 2002. He pledged to grow the National Rural Health Mission, which has mobilized half a million health workers, all over India, and following this his ministry also launched a National Urban Health Mission, to serve the ghetto staying urban destitute.

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