Hyderabad:
Following the Telangana Meeting’s passing of a decision looking for the Bharat Ratna for late former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief KT Rama Rao urged the state authorities to influence the Central authorities to ascertain a memorial for former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao within the nationwide capital.
Mr Rao mentioned, “Dr Manmohan Singh was a fantastic economist and is revered throughout celebration strains. Our celebration supported the decision handed within the Meeting in the present day. We additionally admire the federal government’s transfer to put in a statue of Dr Singh right here. Nonetheless, we remind the Congress authorities in Telangana that the one Prime Minister who served India honourably and introduced in important reforms was PV Narasimha Rao. Sadly, he’s the one late Prime Minister who doesn’t have a memorial within the nationwide capital. We have now demanded that the state authorities additionally go a decision within the Meeting to honour PV Narasimha Rao and urge the Union authorities to arrange a memorial for him.”
He alleged that the state authorities was avoiding discussions about PV Narasimha Rao resulting from political compulsions. Rao mentioned, “He’s a son of the soil, from Telangana. We hope the Union authorities will take discover of this demand and arrange a memorial, together with what they’re doing for former PM Manmohan Singh.”
Earlier, BRS MLC Ok Kavitha on Monday slammed Congress for “disrespecting” former PM PV Narasimha Rao by not conducting his final rites in Delhi.
“It’s a well-known proven fact that the Congress authorities has ignored PV Narasimha Rao and disrespected him. They didn’t conduct his final rites in Delhi. In Telangana, we’ve got revered him. We celebrated his beginning centenary. We constructed an enormous memorial right here in Hyderabad. Nonetheless, as a former Prime Minister, I consider PV Narasimha Rao ought to have his memorial (in Delhi),” Kavitha advised ANI.
A disagreement has damaged out between political events over the cremation of Manmohan Singh at Delhi’s Nigambodh Ghat with Congress leaders criticising the central authorities for allegedly disrespecting Dr Singh by performing his final rites at Nigambodh Ghat as a substitute of Rajghat.
The Congress claimed that Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge had requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi and House Minister Amit Shah to carry the ceremony at Rajghat, however they refused, exhibiting “narrow-mindedness” and “hatred” in direction of the previous PM.
In the meantime, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Sunday accused the Congress celebration of “creating” an argument over the demise of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and constructing a memorial for him. He highlighted that former PM Narasimha Rao’s physique wasn’t even delivered to the AICC headquarters.
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