Trinamool Veteran Subrata Mukherjee Cremated With Full State Honours
NDTV
Bengal Panchayat Minister Subrata Mukherjee, who died at 9.22 pm on Thursday, was given the gun salute at Kolkata's Keoratola crematorium.
Veteran Trinamool Congress leader Subrata Mukherjee was cremated with full state honours in Kolkata on Friday evening, with political leaders cutting across party lines paying their last respect to him. The panchayat minister was given the gun salute at the Keoratola crematorium in the southern part of the city.
The state government declared seven-day mourning after the death of the ailing 75-year-old minister following a massive cardiac arrest at a state-run hospital on Thursday night.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who had described the demise of former Kolkata mayor as a "big personal loss", remained indoors as her nephew and Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee paid floral tribute to Mukherjee at the crematorium after which the last rites were performed.
Mukherjee was considered the political mentor of Mamata Banerjee during her initial years in Chhatra Parishad, the student wing of the Congress. "I will not be able to see Subrata-da's body," she had told reporters on Thursday.
