Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi along with two senior party leaders arrived in Guwahati on Wednesday morning to pay their last respects to former Assam Prime Minister Tarun Gogoi, who died on Monday due to post-Covid complications.
Gandhi landed at Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport on a chartered flight from Goa along with party general secretaries KC Venugopal and Jitendra Singh.
Shortly after landing, he along with the other two leaders went directly to Gogoi’s official residence in Guwahati to meet members of the former leader’s family, including his wife Dolly and their son Gaurav, a member of the Lok Sabha parliament from Assam.
From there, he will go to Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra in the city, where Gogoi’s mortal remains were transferred on Tuesday night, and pay his last respects to the deceased leader.
Gandhi and Venugopal will leave for Delhi after that, while Singh, who is also the party in charge of Assam, will stay behind to attend the cremation scheduled for Thursday.
The last Gogoi rites will be performed at the Nabagraha cremation grounds in Guwahati on Thursday morning. The body is scheduled to be taken from Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra to a mosque, temple, gurudwara and church before being taken to the cremation ground.
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