Vajpayee's ashes immersed in Arabian Sea off Mumbai coast

August 24, 2018 17:09

The ashes of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee were today immersed in the Arabian Sea near the Gateway of India in Mumbai in the presence of senior BJP leaders. Earlier on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah had handed over urns containing Vajpayees ashes to all the BJP state unit chiefs asking them to immerse it in rivers and seas across the country. The "asthi kalash yatra" here, which took place in the afternoon today, had several BJP leaders travelling in a boat and its city unit chief Ashish Shelar and senior state minister Vinod Tawde immersing the ashes in the sea amid sloganeering by party workers eulogising Vajpayee.

Image: PM Modi with the urns containing Atal Bihari Vajpayee's ashes at the BJP HQ in Delhi.

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