Manmohan Singh Death Latest Updates: Last Rites of Former PM to Be Performed at Nigambodh Ghat Tomorrow

Manmohan Singh Death Latest Updates: The last rites of former prime minister Manmohan Singh will be conducted at 11:45 am Saturday at the Nigambodh Ghat crematorium here with State honours, the Union Home Ministry said.

"The Government has decided that State funeral will be accorded to Dr. Manmohan Singh. The funeral will take place at 11:45 AM on 28h December 2024 at Nigambodh Ghat, New Delhi," the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said in a statement.

It is said the Ministry of Defence has been requested to make arrangements for according Singh State funeral with full military honours.

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Former PM Dr Manmohan Singh passes away at 92 at AIIMS. He was India’s 13th PM and the first Sikh to hold the post. He was the Congress led UPA government at the Centre from May 2004 to May 2014.

Dr Manmohan Singh, who retired from public life after the Congress' defeat at the hands of the BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, made his last public appearance in the Rajya Sabha, of which he was a member, in August 2023.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to PM Narendra Modi that the last rites of former PM Manmohan Singh should be performed at a place where a memorial can be built.

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Kharge requested discussing with Modi the possibility of creating a memorial for Singh, who served as Prime Minister for two terms and was widely respected across India.

"Apropos our telephonic conversation today morning, wherein I made a request to hold Dr Manmohan Singh's last rites, which will take place tomorrow i.e. 28th December 2024, at his final resting place that would be a sacrosanct venue for a memorial of the great son of India.

"This is in keeping with such tradition of having memorials of statesmen and former Prime Ministers at the very place of their funerals," Kharge wrote in his two-page letter.

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