Ashes of former Prime Minister and Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be brought to the Capital City on Wednesday and will be taken directly to Carnival Hall here. A tribute to the mass leader would be paid over there in which leaders from different political parties, members of religious organisations and people from different walks of life can take part.
The party for making the programme a grand success has also approached various political outfits. State BJP president laxman Gilua following a meeting at the party office called upon leader of Opposition and JMM executive president Hemant Soren in this regard and extended formal invitation to him. Similar exercise would also be taken for parties like Congress, JVM and others.
BJP executive committee of State met on Monday in the presence of party president laxman Gilua and host of office bearers where entire programme for immersing the ashes into different rivers of the State got finalised. Then the urn containing the ashes would be taken to the party office for paying homage.
“Atal ji was above party lines and respected by everyone. I, along with party general secretary Anat Ojha, would be travelling to Delhi on Tuesday to bring the ashes of Atal ji here. His pious ashes would be immersed into major rivers flowing through all the Divisions of the State,” said Gilua.
As per the programme, the ashes would be taken by 500 motorcycle borne workers of the party’s youth wing before being immersed into river Suvarnrekha at Namkum in Ranchi on August 23 in the presence of Chief Minister Raghubar Das. On the next day similar porgramme would take place at Koyal River at Medininagar, Damodar at Ramgarh, Ganga at Sahibgunj and Suvarnrekha at Bahragoda.
Names of party leaders have also been finalised who would remain present during the programme at different places. “Arjun Munda, Ravindra Rai, Jayant Sinha and Pradeep Verma would participate at Ramgarh while CP Singh, Ramchandra Chandravansi, Aditya Sahu and Sunil Singh would be present at Medininagar. Similarly, louis Marandi, Anant Ojha, Raj Paliwar would participate at Sahibgunj and at Bahragoda, laxman Gilua, Saryu Roy, Samir Oraon and Dineshanand Goswami would remain present. All local MlAs and MPs have been urged to participate,” said the BJP State president. Various related programmes for paying tribute to the leader would continue till August 30 in all 24 districts and blocks of the State.