Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh was cremated Monday with senior leaders, birthday party people and a large wide variety of local people congregating at Bansi Ghat in Bulandshahr's Narora city for the remaining rites.
Rajveer Singh lit his father's pyre at the funeral attended via senior BJP leaders, which include Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.
The two-time CM, who had also been the Rajasthan Governor, died at a Lucknow hospital on Saturday after spending weeks inside the ICU.
A Hindutva icon, Singh changed into the Uttar Pradesh chief minister while Kar Sevaks demolished the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.
The others gift at the cremation ground have been UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya, BJP chief Uma Bharti, except some of country ministers, BJP employees and neighborhood human beings, officers said.
They stated Singh changed into cremated with complete state honours after his mortal remains had been added here from Ahilya Bai Holkar stadium in Aligarh, in which they have been stored for the people to pay their last respect.
From Aligarh, the past due BJP chief's frame was first taken to Atrauli, close to his native village Madholi, and turned into kept there for darshan', earlier than being taken to Narora.
In Atrauli, Singh's mortal stays have been saved within the PWD Guest House, wherein diverse dignitaries, consisting of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Madhya Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, UP CM Yogi Adityanath, BJP state president Swatantra Dev Singh paid their tributes.
A Lodhi chief, Kalyan Singh changed into instrumental inside the upward push of the BJP to electricity in Uttar Pradesh within the Nineties.
He is survived by using his wife Ramvati Devi, son Rajveer Singh, who is the Lok Sabha MP from Etah, and grandson Sandeep Singh, who's the minister of state for finance, technical education and scientific education in Uttar Pradesh.
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