‘Utter rubbish…’: Pranab Mukherjee's daughter Sharmistha slams Congress amid Manmohan Singh memorial row
Hindustan TimesFormer president Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee has slammed the Congress for not holding a Congress Working Committee meeting after her father's demise. Her comments come after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge demanded a funeral place for former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh where a memorial could be built. Congress-MHA back and forth on Manmohan Singh memorial The Congress on Friday said not finding a location for the cremation and memorial of Manmohan Singh was a deliberate insult to the country's first Sikh prime minister. The Union home ministry said on Friday night that the government will allocate space for a memorial of former prime minister Manmohan Singh and this has been communicated to his family and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, In a late-night release titled "Facts of the matter regarding memorial for Former Prime Minister Late Dr Manmohan Singh", the ministry said the government received a request to allocate space for a memorial for Singh from the Congress chief. Immediately after the Cabinet meeting, Union Home Minister Amit Shah communicated to Kharge and the family of Manmohan Singh that the government would allocate space for the memorial.