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Replying to the BJP's comments on senior Congress leaders remaining absent during the final immersion-of-ashes rites of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Congress claimed that senior party officials did not join the family "out of our deference to the privacy of the family."
BJP also claimed that Rahul Gandhi "exploited" Singh's death for his "expedient politics", but soon flew to Vietnam to celebrate the New Year.
Congress leader Manickam Tagore accused the BJP of diversionary politics and questioned why the party is concerned with Rahul Gandhi's private travels.