Rahul Gandhi accompanies mortal stays of Manmohan Singh to cremation floor

President Droupadi Murmu, vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, together with senior leaders and dignitaries, had been additionally current to attend the funeral.

Chief of Defence Employees Normal Anil Chauhan and the chiefs of the Military, Navy, and Air Pressure had been additionally current to pay their respects.

Earlier within the morning, the Indian Military, Navy, and Air Pressure officers introduced Dr. Singh’s mortal stays to the Congress headquarters, the place his household and senior Congress leaders gathered for a solemn tribute.

Congress Parliamentary Get together president Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge paid their respects by draping the physique with the Indian Nationwide Congress flag.

Dr Singh’s spouse, Gursharan Kaur, led the tributes on the Congress headquarters. Different distinguished Congress leaders, together with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, D.Ok. Shivakumar, Ashok Gehlot, Ok.C. Venugopal, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, and Telangana Congress Chief Revanth Reddy, had been additionally current to honour the previous Prime Minister.

A big crowd of Congress leaders, staff, and supporters gathered outdoors the headquarters because the armed forces ceremonially positioned the late chief’s mortal stays on a automobile for the funeral procession.

The streets resonated with chants of “Manmohan Singh Amar Rahe (lengthy reside Manmohan Singh)” as Congress staff adopted the procession, demonstrating their reverence for Dr Singh.

Dr Singh, India’s 14th Prime Minister and a globally revered economist, handed away on Thursday evening on the age of 92 on the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.

Often called the ‘Architect of India’s financial reforms,’ he served two consecutive phrases as Prime Minister from 2004 to 2014, main the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA).