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New Delhi, Jan 14: Sharad Yadav’s last rites will be performed today at his ancestral village in Madhya Pradesh’s Narmadapuram. The final rites will be performed by his son, Shantanu Bundela, according to the news agency PTI.
The renowned socialist politician and former union minister passed away on Thursday at the age of 75 in a Gurugram private hospital. Yadav, who had been ill for some time, was brought to the Fortis Memorial Research Institute comatose, unresponsive, and without a pulse or detectable blood pressure, according to a statement from the hospital.
Delhi | The mortal remains of former Union Minister Sharad Yadav are being taken to his ancestral village in Narmadapuram, Madhya Pradesh. He passed away on 12th January. pic.twitter.com/7lp8jNkpWB
— ANI (@ANI) January 14, 2023
Yadav’s close friend and former Janata Dal (United) Madhya Pradesh unit chairman Govind Yadav said on Friday that his final rites would be performed in his hometown of Ankhmau in the Narmadapuram (formerly Hoshangabad) district’s Babai tehsil.
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Top political figures in the nation, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, sent condolence messages after Yadav’s daughter Subhashini Yadav confirmed the news of his death on social media.
Between 1999 and 2004, the former JD(U) president served in a number of different government positions under Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He recently combined the Rashtriya Janata Dal and Loktrantik Janata Dal (LJD), two parties he established in 2018. (RJD).
