DC Edit | Bickering over memorial for Manmohan shameful
Deccan ChronicleThe unseemly controversy around the spot where former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was to be cremated and a memorial for him was to be built must end at the earliest, lest it be seen as a great affront to the memory of a man who always kept the interest of the nation above all else and never engaged in self-promotion. The Congress had demanded that the government earmark a space for the cremation of the former Prime Minister so that a memorial can be built for him at the same spot. As per the government’s account, it then decided upon Nigambodh Ghat as the place for cremation in consultation with Dr Singh’s family while making it known to the public and the Congress leadership that it will allot a site in the capital for the construction of an appropriate memorial for the former Prime Minister. Unwilling to accept the government’s decision, the Opposition party now sees in this an attempt by the BJP to deliberately insult the memory of the country’s “first Sikh Prime Minister”.