Sonia Gandhi calls Manmohan Singh’s death a ‘deeply personal loss’, hails him as ‘statesman of wisdom’
Live MintCongress Parliamentary Party President Sonia Gandhi on Friday condoled the death of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, expressing her sadness over the ‘deep personal loss’. “For me, Dr Manmohan Singh’s death is a deeply personal loss,” Sonia Gandhi wrote in her obituary for the deceased former PM. We in the Congress Party, and the people of India will forever be proud and grateful that we had a leader like Dr Manmohan Singh whose contributions to India's progress and development are immeasurable,” Sonia Gandhi concluded her emotional letter for the deceased former prime minister. Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi While the ‘gentle’ and ‘soft-spoken’ Manmohan Singh, during his tenure as the Prime Minister, was often dubbed Sonia Gandhi's ‘puppet’, he refused to be bogged down by the jabs.