It was a cool and calm atmosphere at the funeral of late PM Manmohan Singh. The who is who of the Government came to pay the last respects to Manmohan Singh.
Besides President Murmu and Prime Minister Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, and Leaders of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi were among the top leaders who paid their last tributes to the former prime minister at the
crematorium. Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, and the three services chiefs also paid their last respects to Singh.
The procession carrying Singh’s mortal remains reached the crematorium at around 11.30 am, where the last rites will be performed shortly. Draped in the Tricolour, the flower-bedecked casket was placed at a raised platform, where leaders cutting across party lines laid wreaths on Singh’s mortal remains.
Earlier, the final journey of Singh began from the AICC headquarters on Saturday morning after Congress leaders paid homage to their departed leader.
