State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Dharamlal Kaushik on Tuesday proceeded for New Delhi to bring the urn containing ashes of former Prime Minister and party patriarch Atal Behari Vajpayee. He will be arriving in the State capital with urn on Wednesday morning.
At first, the urn would be kept for party workers and general public to pay tributes at party’s State office ‘Ekatma Parisar’ on Wednesday and thereafter at Town Hall on Thursday morning.
A ‘Kalash Yatra’ would be taken out thereafter in the afternoon. The Yatra would traverse through major roads and avenues of the capital before culminating at Shadani Darbar at Mana.
The ashes would be distributed in several urns later on for taking out Kalash Yatra in all the 27 districts and for immersing them in major rivers across the state.
The same day i.e. on Thursday the ashes would be immersed at confluence of rivers Mahanadi, Sondhur and Pairi in Rajim. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, cabinet ministers, senior office bearers of the organization would especially be present at Rajim during the immersion of ashes.