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Indians bid adieu to former Indian PM Vajpayee
The Indian government has announced a 7-day national mourning for Vajpayee.
Vajpayee, who passed away at AIIMS on Thursday evening, will be given a state funeral around 4 p.m. at the Rashtriya Smriti Sthal on the banks of the Yamuna.
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) August 17, 2018
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President Amit Shah and other senior leaders including L.K. Advani and Sitaram Yechury paid their tributes to Vajpayee.
The body was brought from the Krishna Menon Marg residence of the former Prime Minister in a flower-decked hearse drawn by a military truck.
Party leaders and hundreds gathered to pay their last respects to the former BJP leader.
- ANI (@ANI) August 17, 2018
The body in a flower-decked casket was carried in a hearse to 6-A Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg headquarters.
- ANI (@ANI) August 17, 2018
Vajpayee, whose politics of moderation in a hardline party propelled the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power for the first time in the 1990s, died on Thursday after long illness.
The 93-year-old leader, who had faded from public life for more than a decade following health complications and was admitted to AIIMS with urinary tract infection on June 11, breathed his last at 5.05 p.m.
He became the Prime Minister first in May 1996 for 13 days and again in March 1998 till 2004. With his swearing-in as Prime Minister after the Lok Sabha polls of October 1999, Vajpayee became the first and only person after Jawaharlal Nehru to occupy the Office of the Prime Minister of India for three successive Lok Sabhas.
He was awarded India's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna in 2015.Seven-day mourning in India
The national flag will be flown at half mast throughout India and Indian missions abroad between August 16 and 22 -- the period of national mourning.
These decisions were taken at a meeting of the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
As a mark of respect to the departed soul, the Central government offices will be closed for half day on Friday afternoon in Delhi and across the country, along with the Central Public Sector Undertakings.
The Delhi government offices will also remain closed.
The Cabinet also decided that there will be no official entertainment during the entire period of state mourning.
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