Delhi: Atal Bihari Vajpayee's last rites to be performed at 4 pm today
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IBNS): The last rites of former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be held in New Delhi's Rashtriya Smriti Sthal at 4 pm on Friday.
He passed away on Thursday.
Security has been beefed up in the national capital as lakhs of mourners are expected by the police to reach central Delhi to pay their last tributes to the tall leader of the country.
The mortal remains of the BJP leader was kept overnight at his official residence here.
His body will be taken to BJP headquarters at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg shortly.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a three-time prime minister of India, a Bharat Ratna and a stalwart of Indian politics who represented the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), passed away at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on Thursday.
He was 93.
Vajpayee, whose first term as the Prime Minister lasted only 13 days in 1996, returned to the top position in 1998 to lead the nation till 2004.
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