Ex-PM Dr Manmohan Singh’s funeral should take place where ‘his memorial can be built’, Congress chief urges PM Modi
Live MintA day after India’s former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh passed away at the age of 92 at Delhi’s AIIMS, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, requesting that the former PM’s last rites be conducted at a location where a memorial can be built in his honour. Kharge wrote the letter after speaking with PM Modi about establishing a memorial for Dr Singh, a two-term prime minister “revered by the people of the country”. The Congress chief also said that Dr Manmohan Singh holds a highly revered place in the psyche of the country and its people, and his contributions and achievements were phenomenal. Kharge recalled President Obama's words when, as the US president, he mentioned that “whenever the Indian prime minister speaks, the whole world listens to him.” He also said that when the nation was in the throes of a grave economic crisis, Dr Manmohan Singhand, former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao, took India out of the crisis and led the country towards economic prosperity and stability.