Chidambaram: Why no Bharat Ratna to Manmohan Singh | India Information

NEW DELHI: Congress MP P Chidambaram on Monday, whereas taking part within the dialogue on the Union funds in Rajya Sabha, requested the government why former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was not conferred the Bharat Ratna this Republic Day.
Praising Singh, who handed away on December 26, 2024, for his knowledge and farsightedness, the previous house minister recalled how in 1991, when the nation’s financial system confronted a grave disaster, “a person entered Parliament and North Block (the place the finance ministry is headquartered).”
“He had an financial philosophy. He adopted it with insurance policies that required knowledge and farsightedness. Dr Manmohan Singh had it. I’m urging the hon’ble finance minister to recapture the knowledge and farsightedness of Dr Manmohan Singh,” he stated, in a message meant for Nirmala Sitharaman.
As he wound up his speech, Chidamabaram posed “one final query”. “That is by means of the finance minister to the government. Why have you ever not conferred the Bharat Ratna on Dr Manmohan Singh?” he requested amid cheers from different members.
Singh later additionally got here in for reward from Trinamool MP Sushmita Deb, who remembered him for his imaginative and prescient in 1991 to develop northeastern states as a part of a ‘Look East’ strategy, realising their potential as a gateway to east and southeast Asia.