Sonia, Rahul congratulate Singh on Japanese award

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday visited former prime minister Manmohan Singh to congratulate him for being conferred with one of the highest civilian honours of Japan. Singh was awarded ‘The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers’ this week for his “significant contribution to the enhancement of relations and promotion of friendship” between Japan and India for about 35 years. The Gandhis were accompanied by Rajya Sabha Leader of Opposition, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress’s leader in Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, and Congress Rajya Sabha MP Karan Singh.