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Veteran Congress leader, state combatant and erstwhile Minister Bheemanna Khandre was laid to remainder with State honours astatine Bhalki municipality successful Bidar territory connected Saturday. Thousands of people, including spiritual heads, nationalist representatives and leaders cutting crossed enactment lines, gathered to wage their past respects to the departed leader.
Mr. Khandre, who passed distant owed to age-related ailments, was buried beside the sedate of his woman astatine the family’s cultivation land, ‘Shantidham’, connected the outskirts of Bhalki town. His son, Forest, Ecology and Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre, performed the past rites successful accordance with household traditions, successful the beingness of spiritual heads from assorted parts of the State. His grandson, Bidar Lok Sabha subordinate Sagar Khandre, and different household members were present.
Floral tributes
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar paid floral tributes and expressed condolences to the bereaved family. A ample fig of Cabinet Ministers, legislators and elder bureaucrats attended the ceremonial and recalled Mr. Khandre’s agelong and eventful nationalist life.
From Saturday morning, the mortal remains of the departed person were kept for nationalist viewing astatine the household residence successful the Gandhi Gunj country of Bhalki, wherever radical from antithetic walks of beingness gathered to wage their past respects to the leader. In the evening, the assemblage was taken successful a procession done the main junctions of municipality earlier reaching ‘Shantidham’ workplace connected Chikal Chand Road for the last rites.
As a people of respect, markets and astir of the commercialized establishments crossed Bhalki municipality remained closed for the day. People from antithetic parts of Bidar territory and neighbouring regions participated successful the funeral, galore of them recalling Mr. Khandre’s relation successful championing the causes of farmers, backward communities and the wide improvement of the Kalyana Karnataka region.
Among those contiguous were Ministers Priyank Kharge, Sharan Prakash Patil, M.B. Patil, Sharanabasappa Darshanapur, K.J. George and Rahim Khan, too elder leaders from assorted governmental parties, who paid homage and described Mr. Khandre arsenic a towering wide person with heavy grassroots connections.
AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge spoke to Mr. Eshwar Khandre implicit the telephone and conveyed his heavy grief implicit the demise of seasoned person Bheemanna Khandre. Mr. Kharge expressed his condolences to the bereaved household and recalled the precocious leader’s agelong nationalist beingness and publication to the Congress enactment and the improvement of the region.
Elaborate information arrangements were made to negociate the ample gathering, and the territory medication coordinated the proceedings to guarantee the creaseless behaviour of the funeral.
