 Manmohan Singh could become a Rajya Sabha member, and thereby a prime minister, chiefly by falsely claiming that he was a resident of Hiteswar Saikia's house in Guwahati.As his transplanted kidney is failing fast, his recurrent fever refused to go and he was finding more difficulty in breathing.Doctors insisted to take rest but Saikia refused and continuing on his post-political career until his untimely demise on 22 April 1996, at the age of 60 years.