Arunachal Pradesh’s former Chief Minister Kalikho Pul, who was found hanging from the ceiling fan in a bedroom in the chief ministerial bungalow, was cremated on Thursday at his native Hawai village in Anjaw district, with full state honours.
On Wednesday, Pul’s mortal remains were flown down to Hawai. Mourners gathered at the chief ministerial bungalow as they bid him a tearful goodbye. Amidst the farewell, there rose demands to make public the 60 page notes in Hindi, supposedly written by Pul, which were retrieved from the room in which he was found dead on Tuesday.
Pul’s supporters and admirers wanted the contents of the notes to be made public so it could be discerned what drove him to take such a step.
Pul’s body was kept in the Chief Minister’s residence since Tuesday after autopsy and people from different walks of life paid floral tributes till late in the night.
Several political leaders also paid their respects. “Some of his colleagues and family members, including wife Dangwimsai, boarded the chopper that carried the body of Pul,” a Congress leader said.
Former Arunachal Pradesh CM Gegong Apang, who was present at the helipad, demanded a thorough inquiry into the circumstances leading to Pul’s death.
Arunachal Pradesh has declared a three-day mourning.
Pul was on Tuesday, found hanging from the ceiling fan in one of the rooms in the CM’s bungalow, which he had not vacated after the Supreme Court’s historic judgement which removed him from the CM’s position, and reinstated the erstwhile Congress government.
(Source: The Telegraph, IANS)
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