People in Mayurbhanj district, cutting across party lines, mourned the death of former Prime Minister Bharat Ratna Atal Behari Vajpayee. They lit earthen lamps and paid floral tributes at the portraits of Vajpayee at different places on Friday.
The lamps were kept burning till the former PM’s mortal remains were cremated in Delhi. While these programmes were organised by BJP workers at different places, people from different walks of life, setting aside their party affiliations, joined them.
The District Bar Association and several other clubs and associations too held “Shraddhanjali Sabhas” for Vajpayee. lawyers remembered Vajpayee’s multifaceted personality.
When the news of Vajpayee’s death spread on Thursday evening, a pall of gloom descended in Baripada town and nearby areas.