The last rites of Dorjee Khandu, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh of India was performed today as flashed on the f.b. on May 6,2011.

Bishwa Nath Singh


The last rites of Dorjee Khandu, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh of India who had died in his Chopper crash on April 30,2011 soon after it had taken off from ground level will be performed at his home village Gyangkhar in Tawang district on the 6th of May 2011 As a leader and statesman, Dorjee Khandu was very popular and loved by... all because of his good deeds. Such great man is rarely born. Let us join to condole to his death once again and pray to God to grant eternal peace to his departed soul in heavenly abode! It will be our moral responsibility to join also to pay our homage to all others who had died in the said Chopper crash and urge both the Union Govt. of India and State Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh to take proper and timely care of their bereaved families besides also that of Dorjee Khandu’s family.

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( Photo of Dorjee Khandu, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh of India  who is no moreon this worldly earth)

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Bishwa Nath Singh :
The dead body of the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Dorjee Khandu, who was killed in a helicopter crash on the 30th of April 2011 when chopper carrying him and four others including Pilots of that ill-fated Chopper was last contac...ted was brought at Itanagar of Arunchal Pradesh by the army on May 5,2011 for people to pay their last respects before being taken to his home district, Tawang for the last rites to be performed today on the 6th of May 2011.The body, which was located on May 4,2011 from the accident site, was first taken to Luguthang and then airlifted to Tawang by an IAF helicopter along with the bodies of four others who were also killed in the crash on Saturday the 30th of April 2011.A large number of people had lined the roadside as Dorjee Khandu's body, kept in a glass casket, was taken in a flower-bedecked vehicle from the Raj Bhawan helipad to the Chief Minister's Bungalow at Niti Vihar here yesterday. The holy Priests belonging to various religions chanted hymns. A guard of honour by the ITBP, which guards the Indo- Bhutan border, was given as the body was flown in here by an IAF MI-172 chopper from Tawang yesterday..Dorjee Khandu's second wife Rinchin Drema, eldest son Pema, elder brother Goleng, and Lok Sabha member Takam Sanjoy also came here by the chopper yesterday. Almost all leaders and high-ups including our country’s President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi were among a host of leaders who had condoled Dorjee Khandu's death. The national flag had flown at half mast on the 5th of May 2011and will fly half mast on May 6,2011 in Arunachal Pradesh and in all states and UT capitals, including Delhi, a Union Home Ministry statement said in Delhi.His last rites will be performed at his home village Gyangkhar in Tawang district on the 6th of May 2011 As a leader and statesman, Dorjee Khandu was very popular and loved by all because of his good deeds. Such great man is rarely born. Let us join to condole to his death once again and pray to God to grant eternal peace to his departed soul in heavenly abode! It will be our moral responsibility to join also to pay our homage to all others who had died in the said Chopper crash and urge both the Union Govt. of India and State Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh to take proper and timely care of their bereaved families besides also that of Dorjee Khandu’s family.
 
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