‘A Conflict On Reminiscence Lane’: Why Congress Is Attacking BJP Over Manmohan Singh’s Final Rites, Memorial – News18
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The truth that the Congress was at full energy is a sworn statement to the truth that the social gathering desires to come clean with its former PM and never let the BJP hog any credit score. It desires to undertaking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his authorities…Learn Extra
Former PM Manmohan Singh died on December 26. Picture/News18
Barely has the hearth of the funeral pyre dimmed, and politics has been stoked over a memorial for late former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Congress was assured by union house minister Amit Shah {that a} belief can be arrange quickly for a samadhi of the previous PM.
However issues haven’t ended right here. Congress leaders are up in arms, accusing the federal government of insulting Dr Singh. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took the lead. She accused the federal government of disrespecting the legacy and contribution of Manmohan Singh and in addition the self-respecting Sikh neighborhood. Manickam Tagore and others too have joined the refrain.
Not stopping at this, the whole final rites ceremony was criticised by the Congress. Pawan Khera took to social media website X and mentioned, “The state funeral of Dr Manmohan Singh was a surprising show of disrespect and mismanagement – No information companies besides DD have been allowed; DD centered on Modi & Shah, barely masking Dr Manmohan Singh’s household. Solely 3 chairs have been saved within the entrance row for Dr Singh’s household. Congress leaders needed to insist on seats for his daughters and different relations. PM & ministers didn’t rise up when the Nationwide Flag was handed to the widow of the late Prime Minister, or in the course of the gun salute.”
The BJP hit again on the opposition social gathering, the place it hurts most. First, it mentioned that the Congress had not allowed the mortal stays of its former PM Narasimha Rao to enter the pinnacle workplace. It added that his memorial was made not in Delhi however in Hyderabad.
BJP chief JP Nadda mentioned, “This is identical Congress which tarnished the dignity of the submit of PM by inserting Sonia Gandhi as tremendous PM above PM Manmohan Singh. Rahul Gandhi insulted PM Manmohan Singh by tearing the ordinance. And at this time the identical Rahul Gandhi is doing politics. The Gandhi household has neither given respect to any large chief of the nation nor completed justice to them. Whether or not it’s from the Congress social gathering or the opposition, whether or not it’s Baba Saheb Ambedkar, the nation’s first President Rajendra Babu, Sardar Patel, Lal Bahadur Shastri, PV Narasimha Rao, Pranab Da, Atal Bihari Vajpayee…” He additionally quoted late President and Congress veteran Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee’s assertion that the Congress Working Committee (CWC) by no means met for her father nor was there any condolence assembly.
So why is the Congress making this a difficulty?
The truth that the Congress was at full energy is a sworn statement to the truth that the social gathering desires to come clean with its former PM and never let the BJP hog any credit score.
It desires to undertaking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his authorities as insensitive.
Not simply this, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra raised the “Sikh level” simply forward of the 2025 Delhi polls and in addition to chalk out a technique for Punjab later. In Delhi, the Congress doesn’t need the BJP to make use of the 1984 Sikh riots concern. BJP MP Aprajita Sarangi gifted a bag with 1984 printed on it to Priyanka, symbolic of the anti-Sikh riots, which has angered the Congress and it desires to counter this narrative.
However the BJP has all the time discovered a weak spot within the Congress. That when it got here to non-Gandhis or anybody who stood as much as them, they bought scant respect. Dr Singh too was “humiliated” by the Congress, however as a result of he by no means complained, in response to the BJP, the Gandhis are backing him.
The mourning interval for Dr Singh is on. However the politics over his memorial is alive.
