Video: Congress's Tribute After Party Leader Dies During Bharat Jodo Yatra
NDTV
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh shared a video in which party supporters are seen paying respect to the dead leader
A Congress leader died of a heart attack while walking in the party's Bharat Jodo Yatra in Maharashtra's Nanded today. This 62nd morning of Bharat Jodo Yatra, Krishna Kumar Pandey, General Secretary of Seva Dal was holding the national flag and walking with @digvijaya_28 & me. After a few minutes, as is the practice, he handed the flag to a colleague and moved back. Thereafter he collapsed… pic.twitter.com/5rMiCAfu6P …and was taken in an ambulance to a hospital where most sadly he was declared dead. He was a staunch Congressman and used to take on the RSS in Nagpur. It is a most humbling moment for all the Yatris. pic.twitter.com/JrtmSJ13oj
Krishna Kumar Pandey, 75, was general secretary of the Congress Seva Dal.
Senior Congress leader and the party's communications in-charge Jairam Ramesh shared the unfortunate news on Twitter.
"This 62nd morning of Bharat Jodo Yatra, Krishna Kumar Pandey, General Secretary of Seva Dal was holding the national flag and walking with @digvijaya_28 & me. After a few minutes, as is the practice, he handed the flag to a colleague and moved back. Thereafter he collapsed...," he tweeted.
