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Manmohan Singh's family approves site for his memorial
Financial Express Hyderabad
|March 07, 2025
THE FAMILY OF late Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has given the government its written approval for his memorial on a 900 sq m plot in the middle of the complex of samadhis called the Rashtriya Smriti Sthal near Delhi's Raj Ghat.
Following a visit to the Rashtriya Smriti Sthal by members of the family last week, Gursharan Kaur, the former PM's wife, is learnt to have sent a formal acceptance letter to the government. Last week, Singh's daughters Upinder Singh and Daman Singh, along with their spouses, surveyed the plot.
This story is from the March 07, 2025 edition of Financial Express Hyderabad.
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