Senior Congress leader Subhash Yadav cremated

INDORE: The last rites of senior Congress leader and former deputy chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, Subhash Yadav, was performed with full state honours near his native village Borawa in Khargone district on Thursday. Yadav’s second son Sachin lit the pyre at Makarkheda crematorium, on the banks of Narmada river in the presence of a huge crowd.
Yadav died on Wednesday at a hospital in Delhi following prolonged illness.His body was brought last evening by plane to Indore, from where it was taken to the leader’s native village.
Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, senior Congress leader Suresh Pachauri and leader of opposition in MP assembly Ajay Singh reached Borawa on Thursday morning to meet the bereaved family.
Among those who took part in the last rites were Uttarakhand governor Aziz Qureshi, school education minister of Madhya Pradesh Archana Chitnis, health minister of MP Mahendra Hardia, state general secretary of BJP Nandkishor Chouhan, MLAs, workers of political parties and prominent citizens.
To mourn the death of Yadav, Kashravat market which comes under his constituency observed one day bandh and hundreds of people came out of their houses to catch a glimpse of their leader on the way.