New Delhi, December 27 (IANS). Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will be cremated with full military honors on Saturday at Nigambodh Ghat in New Delhi. He died on Thursday night in Delhi AIIMS.
The Union Home Ministry has announced that Dr. Manmohan Singh will be given a full state funeral. His last rites will be performed on 28 December 2024 (Saturday) at 11.45 am at Nigambodh Ghat. The Defense Ministry has been requested to arrange a state funeral with full military honours.
It is noteworthy that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (92) breathed his last at AIIMS, Delhi on Thursday. He was unwell for some time. In the same year he also said goodbye to parliamentary politics. The tenure of Dr. Manmohan Singh, who was a Rajya Sabha MP for a long time, ended on 3 April 2024. After this, he decided not to continue this journey and said goodbye to parliamentary politics forever. This was the last innings as an MP for Manmohan Singh, who was the Prime Minister of the country twice.
The former Prime Minister was one of the select leaders of the country who was a Rajya Sabha MP for a long time. He was a Rajya Sabha MP for almost 33 years. He introduced new financial and administrative reforms in the Indian economy. In the year 1991, he became a member of Rajya Sabha for the first time. In the same year, he was the Finance Minister in the then Narasimha Rao government from 1991 to 1996 and then the Prime Minister from 2004 to 2014. His demise marks the end of an era of transformational leadership in the country.
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