Pranab Mukherjee’s Daughter Slams Congress Amid Manmohan Singh Memorial Row
New Delhi:
Sharmistha Mukherjee, the daughter of former President late Pranab Mukherjee, has criticised Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge’s proposal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, looking for a separate memorial for former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.
Dr Manmohan Singh died of age-related diseases at Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Thursday night time. He was 92.
In an announcement on X, she claimed that when her father and the previous Indian President died in August 2020, the Congress management didn’t even trouble to convene a condolence assembly by the Congress Working Committee (CWC).
When baba handed away, Congress didnt even trouble 2 name CWC 4 condolence assembly. A senior chief instructed me it isn’t executed 4 Presidents. Thats utter garbage as I realized later from baba’s diaries that on KR Narayanan’s demise, CWC was referred to as & condolence msg was drafted by baba solely https://t.co/nbYCF7NsMB
— Sharmistha Mukherjee (@Sharmistha_GK) December 27, 2024
She even accused the Congress management of deceptive her on this problem throughout that point.
Based on her, a senior chief of the Congress instructed her that it isn’t for Indian Presidents.
Terming this logic by the Congress chief whom she known as “utter garbage”, she additionally claimed that she learnt from her father’s diaries that on the demise of one other former Indian President KR Narayanan, a CWC assembly was referred to as and the condolence message was drafted by none apart from Pranab Mukherjee.
Sharmishtha Mukherjee referred to a publish by BJP’s CR Kesavan, who highlighted how Congress had disregarded different statesmen from the celebration simply because they weren’t members of the “Gandhi” household.
On this problem, a reference had been drawn to a chapter within the guide ‘The Unintended Prime Minister’ penned by Dr Singh’s media advisor from 2004 to 2009 and the previous editor-in-chief of Monetary Categorical Dr Sanjaya Baru, the place it had been talked about how the Congress-led UPA authorities by no means constructed a memorial in Delhi for former Prime Minister late PV Narasimha Rao, who handed away in 2004.
Within the guide, it was additionally talked about that Congress by no means constructed a memorial for Mr Rao regardless of being in energy from 2004 to 2014.
Dr Baru in his guide had additionally claimed that Congress didn’t even need Mr Rao’s cremation to occur in New Delhi however quite in his native place of Hyderabad.
