Sea of mourners walks miles in Vajpayee’s final procession
6 years, 4 months ago

Sea of mourners walks miles in Vajpayee’s final procession

Hindustan Times  

The last rites for former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee were performed by his foster daughter Namita Bhattarcharya at Smriti Sthal on the banks of the Yamuna with full state honours on Friday evening. Prime Minister Narendra Modi walked alongside the carriage that carried Vajpayee’s mortal remains over 4km from the BJP headquarters at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg to Smriti Sthal. Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Ravi Shanker Prasad, Sushma Swaraj, Nirmala Sitharaman and Nitin Gadkari, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, former Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal too attended the funeral. The body of the Bharat Ratna recipient, draped in the Tricolour, was brought to the BJP headquarters from his official residence at 6 A Krishna Menon Marg amid chants of ‘Atal Bihari Amar Rahe’ and ‘Vande Mataram’ by mourners, who accompanied the casket covered in white flowers.

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