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Sushma Swaraj to be cremated today with state honours

Sushma Swaraj to be cremated today with state honours

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Sushma Swaraj, former foreign minister who died last night, will be cremated with state honours today. Her body will be kept for three hours at the BJP headquarters from 12pm-3 pm for people to pay tributes, BJP working president J P Nadda said.

The last rites will take place at Delhi’s Lodhi Crematorium. Swaraj died late Tuesday night at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences after suffering a cardiac attack, doctors said. She was 67.

A host of Union ministers and other senior party leaders visited AIIMS and met the bereaved family of the former external affairs minister.               

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Environment Minster Prakash Javadekar, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal and Union Minister Smriti Irani were among the top leaders who visited the hospital.

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