Amid row over cremation site, Centre says it has accepted Manmohan Singh memorial space request
The government not allocating a site befitting of Singh’s global stature for his funeral and memorial was a ‘deliberate insult’, the Congress had said.
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The Union government on Friday said that it has accepted a request made by the Congress seeking allocation of space for a memorial for former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The statement by the Union home ministry came hours after the Opposition party alleged that the Centre had not heeded to its request for Singh to be cremated on Saturday at a location where a memorial could be built to honour his legacy.
The former prime minister died in New Delhi on Thursday. He was 92.
The Union government has declared seven-day mourning and said that Singh will be accorded a state funeral. The funeral will take place on Saturday morning at the Nigambodh Ghat in New Delhi, the home ministry said.
On Friday, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said that he had spoken to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah and requested for Singh’s funeral to be held at a “sacrosanct venue” where a memorial can be built for the “great son of India”.
In a social media post, Kharge said he had submitted a letter to Modi about the party’s request.
Singh held a “highly revered place in the psyche of the country and the people of this nation”, adding that the former prime minister’s contributions and achievements were phenomenal, Kharge said. “The nation today...
