The congress on monday reacted to the BJP's complaint that leaders of the grand old birthday celebration did not accompany manmohan Singh's own family in the course of the immersion of his ashes in the yamuna River, pronouncing it desired to accord privacy to the bereaved circle of relatives.
congress leader Pawan Khera said senior leaders sonia gandhi and priyanka gandhi Vadra had visited Singh's family after the funeral.
He said congress leaders did not accompany the own family out of "our deference to the privacy of the own family".
He stated the family didn't get any privateness for the duration of the cremation and a few extended own family members couldn't even reach the pyre web site.
"After discussing with them, it became felt that for the reason that circle of relatives did now not get any privacy on the time of the cremation and some prolonged family participants could not reach the pyre web site, it would be appropriate to offer them some privacy for the 'Phool Chunana' and the immersion of the ashes which is an emotionally painful and hard ceremony for near family contributors," Khera stated in a declaration.
manmohan Singh exceeded away
The ashes were gathered from the Nigambodh Ghat on sunday morning by means of the own family members and later taken to the 'Asth Ghat' at the yamuna river financial institution close to the gurdwara. Singh's spouse Gursharan Kaur and their three daughters - Upinder Singh, Daman Singh and Amrit Singh - had been present on the immersion website online at the side of other spouse and children, pronounced PTI.
manmohan Singh, who dominated india from 2004 to 2014, died on Thursday. He changed into ninety two years antique. he's survived through his spouse and three daughters.
Singh become credited for ushering in the financial reforms that paved the manner for India's fast boom over the past three many years.
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