Govt to allocate house for Manmohan Singh’s memorial: MHA

In a late-night launch titled “Information of the matter concerning memorial for Former Prime Minister Late Dr Manmohan Singh”, the ministry stated the federal government acquired a request to allocate house for a memorial for Singh from the Congress chief.

The Union Dwelling Ministry clarified that the cremation and different formalities for Manmohan Singh can proceed as soon as a Belief is fashioned and house is allotted to it. This course of is critical to make sure that the memorial is about up appropriately.

Singh, who headed the Congress-led UPA authorities and is credited with financial reforms, handed away on Thursday on the age of 92.

He was India’s prime minister for 10 years between 2004 and 2014.

The Congress on Friday stated that not discovering a location for the cremation and memorial of Singh was a deliberate insult to the nation’s first Sikh prime minister.

The occasion raised the problem after the house ministry stated Singh’s final rites can be held at New Delhi’s Nigambodh Ghat at 11.45 am on Saturday with full state honours.

With PTI inputs