New Delhi: Sharmistha Mukherjee, the daughter of former president Pranab Mukherjee, on Sunday said that her father wanted to bestow the highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, on former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2013. In an exclusive interview with Times Now's Navika Kumar, Sharmistha Mukherjee also made it clear that she does not have any "objection" to the Congress's demand for a separate memorial space for former Prime Minister. "On the contrary, I have tweeted that Dr Singh not only deserves a memorial but also a Bharat Ratna, which my father wanted to bestow on him," she said.Dr Singh, one of India's most distinguished leaders and a respected economist, died in Delhi's AIIMS on Thursday night. He was 92.Sharmistha Mukherjee also cleared the air over her criticism on the grand old party for raising doubts over the funeral venue of Dr Singh."I tweeted in context of a comment made by BJP spokesperson CR Kesavan, who was earlier in the Congress. He had tweeted how Congress high command dealt with PV Narasimha Rao ji - a Congress Prime Minister and Party President. How he was humiliated, his body was not allowed to enter AICC. His family wanted to do his funeral in Delhi but they were asked to cremate him in modern day Telangana," she said. She added that the Congress did not hold a condolence meeting for her father and former President Pranab Mukherjee. "Sonia Gandhiji wrote me a very heart-touching personal letter but it is different from an institutional condolence message. I was surprised on why a condolence meeting was not held by the CWC for my father," she said.Sharmistha Mukherjee said that she was told by senior Congress leaders that the Congress Working Committee (CWC) does not hold condolence meeting for presidents. "This was not true," Sharmistha added, saying that she later found an entry in her father's diary where it was mentioned that CWC head a condolence meeting for former President KR Narayanan. "The message was drafted by my father only," she said. "I was a bit shocked on why the CWC did not condole my father's death formally. My father was President for five years but before that he was a senior leader of Congress for 45 years. Almost 30 years he was associated with CWC. I was very very hurt, and when I read Mr Kesavan's tweet, my emotions came into surface and I tweeted this. It has nothing to do with memorial controversy for Dr Manmohan Singh," she said.Manmohan Singh while failing to convene a Working Committee meeting to condole her father's death. Speaking out against the lapse, she revealed that a senior Congress leader had dismissed the idea, claiming such meetings were not customary for former Presidents."Dr Manmohan Singh was an extremely distingushed leader, one of the greatest sons of the soil. I had tweeted that he deserves memorial, and also a Bharat Ratna, which my father in 2013 wanted to bestow on him," Sharmistha Mukherjee said.A huge political row erupted on Saturday after the Congress accused the Centre of "insulting" Manmohan Singh, the country's first Sikh Prime Minister, by carrying out his last rites at the Nigambodh Ghat instead of at a designated spot that could later become his memorial.As politics over the matter intensified, the Centre said that a decision to set up a memorial had already been taken and that a trust would be formed to identify the location soon.BJP president J P Nadda on Saturday stated that the Centre had decided to allocate space for Manmohan Singh's memorial and had informed his family about it. He accused the Congress of indulging in "cheap politics" over the former Prime Minister's cremation.