BJP Leaders Hit Back at Cong Claims on Funeral Protocol for Manmohan

Three days after former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's death, the political tussle over the protocol followed at his funeral continued on Sunday, with Union ministers hitting out at the Congress for engaging in "shameful politics".

- HT Correspondent

Responding to allegations by the Congress that the government "insulted" Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party's Hardeep Singh Puri said that "those who are manufacturing a parallel narrative with regard to the last rites of Sdr Dr Manmohan Singh Ji are doing a huge disservice to his memory and the ethos he embodied as a human being".

"With his body draped in the Tricolour, the late former Prime Minister was accorded full state & military honours, state funeral and a befitting 21-gun salute. A seven-day national mourning has been declared and flags will fly at half mast. Members of the Sikh Sangat were present in full force during the rituals. Dr Manmohan Singh Ji will forever remain an inspirational leader for us. We will cherish his memories and values. Those members of the Congress party who are vitiating the poise and dignity of the sombre moment with controversies and falsehoods should refrain and introspect," Puri said on X.

Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said the Congress should have respected the former PM when he was alive.