BJP bids final goodbye to Union Minister Ananth Kumar

Bengaluru: Prime Minister narendra Modi and several Bharatiya janata Party leaders, on Tuesday, paid their last respects to the mortal remains of Union Minister Ananth Kumar.

Kumar breathed his last on Monday last at a private hospital. He was undergoing treatment for cancer.

Party spokesperson S. Shantaram stated, " Kumar's body was brought to the party office in Malleshwaram from his residence at Basavangudi on a flower-bedecked military around 0900 hours"

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The cortege carrying the glass casket was draped in the national flag.

The casket was kept in the main hall of the party office as state unit chief B.S. Yeddyurappa, K.S. Eshwarappa, R. Ashok, Union Ministers D.V. Sadananda Gowda and Ramesh Jigajinagi, party's members of Parliament and the state legislature among others gathered to pay their final floral tributes.

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Shantaram stated, "Many of the cadres arrived across the state by overnight trains, buses and private vehicles."

A state funeral would be held later in the day with full military honours and 21-gun salute before the last rites are conducted in accordance with the Hindu rites at the Chamarajpet crematorium here.