King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Mauritius international minister arrived in India on Saturday to attend former prime minister Manmohan Singh’s funeral in Delhi. Earlier, the mortal stays of the previous PM reached Delhi’s Nighambodh Ghat crematorium for final rites.
Wangchuck laid a wreath on the mortal stays of Singh throughout his funeral at Nigambodh Ghat.
Singh, who served because the prime minister from 2004 to 2014 and is extensively generally known as the architect of India’s financial reforms, died on Thursday evening. He was 92.
India’s relations with a number of key international locations, together with Bhutan and Mauritius, noticed vital upswing throughout Singh’s prime ministership.
Singh’s spouse Gursharan Kaur and one among their daughters additionally laid a wreath on his physique and paid their final respects. Thought of the architect of India’s financial reforms, Singh served because the prime minister for 10 years between 2004 and 2014.
A seven-day nationwide mourning is being noticed all through the nation as a mark of respect to the previous prime minister throughout which the nationwide flag can be flown at half-mast throughout the nation, the Union Dwelling Ministry has introduced.
President Droupadi Murmu, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a number of other Union ministers additionally paid their final respects to Singh at Nigambodh Ghat.
(With PTI inputs)