Ram Vilas Paswan Cremated With Full State Honours in Patna

A huge crowd gathered outside Ram Vilas Paswan’s residence to pay their last respects to the Dalit leader.

Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan's mortal remains were flown to Patna from Delhi on 9 October, Friday, for his last rites.

He breathed his last on Thursday night at a Delhi hospital, where he had been admitted for several days. He underwent a heart surgery last weekend. The news of his death was announced by Chirag Paswan.

On Friday, the mortal remains of the late LJP leader were brought to his residence in Delhi's 12 Janpath, where President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Giriraj Singh, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javadekar, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, CPI leader D. Raja and several other leaders paid their tributes.