NE NEWS SERVICE
ALIGARH/BULANDSHAHR (UP), AUG 23
Rajasthan Governor and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh was cremated on Monday with senior leaders, party workers and a large number of local people congregating at Bansi Ghat in Bulandshahr’s Narora town for the last rites.
Rajveer Singh lit his father’s pyre at the funeral attended by senior BJP leaders, including Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister @myogiadityanath pays tribute to former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister #KalyanSingh pic.twitter.com/wEs6iYjN6i
— DD News (@DDNewslive) August 23, 2021
The two-time CM, who had also been the Rajasthan Governor, died at a Lucknow hospital on Saturday after spending weeks in the ICU.
A Hindutva icon, Singh was the Uttar Pradesh chief minister when ‘Kar sevaks” demolished the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.