Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday attended the last rites of Ludhiana MLA and AAP leader Gurpreet Gogi and called his demise "extremely sad" and a "big loss."
Congress leader Pawan Khera on Monday attacked the BJP over allocating Nigam Bodh Ghat for the cremation of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, who passed away earlier last week.
"It is a well-known fact that the Congress government has ignored PV Narasimha Rao and disrespected him. They did not conduct his last rites in Delhi. In Telangana, we have respected him. We celebrated his birth centenary. We built a huge memorial here in Hyderabad. However, as a former Prim
Congress leader Gurjeet Singh Aujla on Sunday, criticized the Centre for allegedly disrespecting former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh by performing his last rites at Nigam Bodh Ghat instead of Rajghat.
"I couldn't attend his funeral but tomorrow or the day after I will go and pay tribute if they allow us. It is a great loss to the country and Congress. The last rites are the rights of families, so as per the sikh ritual, it has been done," said Abhijit Mukherjee while speaking to ANI.
He further said that Rahul Gandhi shamed the government of India when he trashed the cabinet-approved ordinance before the media. He humiliated the dignity of then PM Manmohan Singh since he had told one of his advisors that he would like to resign.
BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla on Sunday hit out at Congress for indulging in "low-level petty politics" over the demise of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Union Minister Pralhad Joshi slammed the Congress party for playing politics over the last rites of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, despite the efforts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to ensure proper arrangements for his cremation at Delhi's Nigambodh Ghat.
A political row erupted between the Congress party and the BJP-led Central government over former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's memorial. The Congress alleged that the BJP 'insulted' Manmohan Singh by allegedly denying the party's request to conduct his last rites at a designated site wher
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday said that performing the last rites of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Nigambodh Ghat is a "deliberate attempt to erase" his immense contributions from public memory.
"By not providing an adequate place for the cremation of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, the Government has not done justice to the dignity of the post of former Prime Minister, the personality of Manmohan Singh, his legacy and the self-respecting Sikh community," Priyanka Gandhi po