Friday 17 August 2018

Vajpayee's Death: People arrive in Delhi from across India to pay homage

The mortal remains would later be taken to the Bharatiya Janata Party's national headquarters at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg.

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee Death NewsHundreds of people queued up outside the residence of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee this morning to pay their last respects to the departed leader.

Heavy security arrangements, including deployment of police, traffic and paramilitary personnel, were in place around the 6-A Krishna Menon Marg bungalow in the Lutyens Delhi.

The mortal remains would later be taken to the Bharatiya Janata Party's national headquarters at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg.
The final journey to the Rashtriya Smriti Sthal would begin around 1 pm on Friday.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Funeral

Vajpayee died at the AIIMS hospital on Thursday at the age of 93, following a prolonged illness.

A 52-year-old man, Yogesh Kumar, arrived here with a group of people from Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand.

The group covered a distance of around 500-km overnight in the hope to have one last glimpse of their beloved leader, Kumar said.
"I had met Vajpayee ji in 1984 when he had visited Uttarkashi en route to Gangotri. He visited the town once again in 1986," Kumar claimed, as he displayed a picture of the Vajpayee with...continue reading

News Source: BS

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