India, Aug. 11 -- Echoing the late ex-PM Manmohan Singh's words about himself, that history will remember him kindly, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi said on Tuesday that he was a quiet but "most consequential" prime minister that India has had.

The Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson's remarks in an article published in The Indian Express came days after the Supreme Court gave Manmohan Singh the clean chit in the coal block allocation case, one of the many corruption cases of the Congress-led UPA era before Narendra Modi and the BJP ascended to power in 2014.

"The date July 29, 2026, was an important but unacknowledged day in our recent political history as in a remarkable judgment, the Supreme Court upheld the CBI's clean chit to Dr...