Left leaders pay tribute to late Vajpayee at BJP headquarters
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IBNS): In one of the rarest scenes ever seen in the country, Left leaders on Friday reached the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in New Delhi's Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg to pay last tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who passed away a day ago.
After coming out from the BJP headquarters, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury rejected the ideological difference as a hurdle to enter the office of the saffron party to pay homage to the former Prime Minister.
Praising late Vajpayee, Yechury told reporters, "It is not about the Left and Right wing political ideologies. Even Vajpayee came to our party office in 1996 after the demise of one of our leaders. It is about humanity. The political situation in the country has changed so we needed him (Vajpayee) at this hour."
Along with Yechury, CPI MP D Raja was also present at the BJP heaquarters.
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.
He was admitted to the hospital on June 11 with a kidney tract infection, urinary tract infection, low urine output and chest congestion.
He breathed last at 5: 05 pm on Thursday.
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