‘Utter garbage…’: Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter Sharmistha slams Congress amid Manmohan Singh memorial row
Former president Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee has slammed the Congress for not holding a Congress Working Committee (CWC) assembly after her father’s demise.
She, nevertheless, backed the Congress’s request to the Centre for a memorial place for Manmohan Singh, who handed away at 92 on Thursday.
Taking to X, Sharmistha Mukherjee stated the Congress did not even “trouble” to name the CWC assembly after Pranab Mukherjee handed away in 2020, saying it wasn’t accomplished for the presidents of the nation.
“When baba handed away, Congress didnt even trouble 2 name CWC 4 condolence assembly. A senior chief informed me it’s not accomplished 4 Presidents. Thats utter garbage as I realized later from baba’s diaries that on KR Narayanan’s dying, CWC was known as & condolence msg was drafted by baba solely,” she wrote in a submit.
Her feedback come after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge demanded a funeral place for former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the place a memorial may very well be constructed. Additionally, Sharmishtha backed the thought of getting a memorial for Dr. Singh
“Having stated that, a memorial for Dr. Singh is a superb concept. He deserves it & additionally Bharat Ratna which baba as President needed 2 confer on him; however that didn’t occur maybe due 2 causes which don’t have to be spelled out,” she wrote in one other X submit.
Congress-MHA forwards and backwards on Manmohan Singh memorial
The Congress on Friday stated not discovering a location for the cremation and memorial of Manmohan Singh was a deliberate insult to the nation’s first Sikh prime minister.
The get together 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.
The Union residence ministry stated on Friday night time that the federal government will allocate area for a memorial of former prime minister Manmohan Singh and this has been communicated to his household and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge,
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 area for a memorial for Singh from the Congress chief.
Instantly after the Cupboard assembly, Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah communicated to Kharge and the household of Manmohan Singh that the federal government would allocate area for the memorial.
In the mean time, cremation and different formalities can occur as a result of a Belief needs to be shaped and area needs to be allotted to it, the house ministry stated.
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.
