In a post on 'X', the Congress chief wrote, “On the behalf of Indian National Congress, we welcome the Bharat Ratna being conferred to P V Narasimha Rao, Chaudhary Charan Singh and Dr M S Swaminathan.”
As the 137-year-old Congress party is gearing up to elect its non-Gandhi chief, the preceding political drama shows how much the party has weakened in the last two decades.
Senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao, BJP leader K Laxman and others also paid floral tributes.
Describing himself as a “private citizen” who will speak neither for Treasury nor for Opposition benches, former President Pranab Mukherjee…
