New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi will host a farewell dinner for Manmohan Singh on today, two days before the announcement of results of Lok Sabha elections.
Yesterday, which was also his last day at work, a standing ovation and emotional farewells greeted the Prime Minister as he prepared to demit office on Saturday, a day after the national election verdict.
A memento is also expected to be presented to Manmohan Singh signed by all members of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) and Union Ministers and to his staff at South Block, his office of 10 years, Dr Manmohan Singh said, you served the nation well. God bless you, sources said.
Congress leaders had always spoken of the relationship between the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi as an ideal division of labour, which saw perfect harmonisation between the government and the party.
AICC has always maintained that there cannot be any better relationship between a party president and a Prime Minister and had often dismissed as rumours and disinformation” reports of differences between the two.
Bureau Report
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