FUNERAL FOR PRANAB MUKHERJEE, PM,MODI PAY LAST RESPECTS
Bureau,Odishabarta
New Delhi: Former President Pranab Mukherjee’s funeral will take place today with full military honours. President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his residence and paid their last respects.
The former President, who had tested positive for the coronavirus, died on Monday, weeks after his brain surgery. He was 84.
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, Army Chief General MM Naravane, Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria and Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh pay their last respects to former President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday at his residence.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla pays last respects to former President Pranab Mukherjee.Defence Minister Rajnath Singh pays last respects to former President Pranab Mukherjee.
“Pranab Mukherjee believed deeply in the importance of India and the US tackling global challenges together, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said, condoling the death of the former president. “President Shri Pranab Mukherjee was a devout public servant who believed deeply in the importance of our two nations tackling global challenges together. Jill and I are saddened to hear of his passing our prayers go out to his loved ones and the Indian people,” Biden said on Monday.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi said Pranab Mukherjee, who died on Monday, was an “integral part” of the party, national life and the central government for over five decades.
For decades he was a father figure,” West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said in her tweet on Monday to express her condolences at the death of former president Pranab Mukherjee. “It is with deep sorrow I write this. Bharat Ratna Pranab Mkherjee has left us.
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