Congress Top Brass Pays Last Respects To Ex-PM Manmohan Singh

Delhi/Hyderabad, Dec 28 (Maxim News): The mortal remains of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were brought to the AICC headquarters on Saturday where top Congress leaders, including party president Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, paid their last respects to him.

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Draped in the national flag, the casket carrying Singh’s body was brought to the Congress headquarters from his 3, Motilal Nehru Marg residence in a flower-bedecked vehicle amid tight security. The procession reached the AICC office a little before 9 am.

Singh’s wife Gursharan Kaur, their three daughters, and relatives were also present. They were received at the Congress headquarters by Kharge and Sonia Gandhi.

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Kaur also paid her last respects by laying a wreath. Kharge and Sonia Gandhi placed the Congress flag with the iconic ‘charkha’ next to the casket.

Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Congress MP Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, and several ex-Union Ministers were among those who paid tributes to the former Prime Minister.

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Congress general secretaries KC Venugopal and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, and Trinamool congress leader Sudip Bandopadhyay were also there.

Singh’s mortal remains were kept at the Congress headquarters for an hour before his final journey to Nigambodh Ghat,  His last rites will be conducted with full state honours.  (Maxim News) 

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