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Bhandari cremated
NEW DELHI:
Hundreds of mourners on Thursday bade farewell to Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sunder Singh Bhandari, who died on Wednesday of a heart attack.
Led by vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, political leaders, mostly from the BJP and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, queued up to lay floral wreaths around the funeral pyre before it was lit by Mr. Bhandari's nephew Shashi.
Mr. Bhandari, one of the founders of the erstwhile Jana Sangh, died a bachelor at 84.
VHP working president Ashok Singhal, BJP chief L. K. Advani, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Babulal Gaur and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje Scindia were some of the leaders who attended the cremation at Nigam Bodh Ghat. BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, Pramod Mahajan, Arun Jaitley, Kalraj Mishra and Ravi Shankar Prasad, were also present.
Mr. Bhandari's body earlier lay in state at the BJP headquarters. Mr. Bhandari, who began his political career as a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Pracharak, rose as a top-rung BJP leader who held gubernatorial assignments in Bihar and Gujarat besides being a three-time member of the Rajya Sabha.
He was elected to the Rajya Sabha twice from Rajasthan and once from Uttar Pradesh.
He was the Governor of Bihar from April 1998 to March 1999. He became the Gujarat Governor in March 1999 and remained in the post till May 2003. — UNI
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