New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union government has offered land to Manmohan Singh's family in the Rajghat complex to build a memorial for the former prime minister.

The plot is next to the memorial of Pranab Mukherjee, former Congress leader who was the president when Singh was Prime Minister in the UPA government. Singh died in December.

The Union government is waiting for the family to build a trust and land will be allocated once it's formed, a report in NDTV said quoting sources. The government will provide Rs.25 lakh to the trust to build the memorial, the report said.

The Congress party had slammed the government for not being able to find a suitable location for Singh's memorial, after the former Finance ...