Centre’s Late-Night Nod To Congress Request For Manmohan Singh’s Memorial After Row – News18
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The announcement came hours after the Congress alleged that its request for a resting place in Delhi for Manmohan Singh had not been accepted by the government.
The request for Manmohan Singh’s memorial was made by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and the party said that he had talked to both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah about the same.
The government said it had agreed to a Congress request for allocation of space for a memorial to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The announcement came hours after the Congress alleged that its request for a resting place in Delhi for Manmohan Singh had not been accepted by the government.
The Ministry of Home Affairs said: “Today morning, the Government received a request to allocate space for a memorial for former Prime Minister Late Dr Manmohan Singh, from the Congress Party President. Immediately after the Cabinet meeting, HM Shri Amit Shah communicated to Congress President Shri Kharge and the family of Late Dr Manmohan Singh that the Government will allocate space for the memorial. In the meanwhile, cremation and other formalities can happen because a trust has to be formed and space has to be allocated to it.”
The request was made by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and the party said that he had talked to both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah about the same.
In 2013, the cabinet of UPA-2 had made a decision to have a common place as a memorial when the official press release noted, “The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for the construction of a ‘Rashtriya Smriti’ at the Samadhis Complex near Ekta Sthal in New Delhi, to establish a place to perform last rites of departed national leaders namely Presidents, Vice Presidents, Prime Ministers, former Presidents, Vice Presidents, Prime Ministers and such other leaders as decided by the Cabinet.”
It added, “In the past, separate memorials for departed national leaders were created near Rajghat which covered a large space. In view of Cabinet decision taken in the year 2000 that “Henceforth Government shall not develop any Samadhi for departed leaders” and the paucity of land at the Samadhis Complex area, ‘Rashtriya Smriti’ is being developed to perform last rites of departed national leaders. The Smriti area will provide space for last rites of departed national leaders in future, besides space for a public gathering.”
The first memorial in the premises was given to the late Prime Minister PV Narsimha Rao in 2015 after the Narendra Modi Government came to power. Late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Bajpai was also cremated at the Smriti Area and his memorial was called Sadaiv Atal.
It is also learned through sources that during the CWC meeting members from the Gandhi family proposed that Manmohan Singh’s funeral could be carried out around the memorial of the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi or Rajiv Gandhi and that Dr Manmohan Singh’s wife Gurcharan Kaur had suggested that the memorial be in the same place that the funeral was going to be held at.
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