Ajit Pawar’s ashes immersed in Ganga at Kashi

The ashes of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who died in a plane crash, were immersed in the Ganga at the holy city of Kashi with full religious rites by party workers on Thursday.

Arun Dubey, a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) worker and a resident of Mirzapur, said he currently lives in Pune and has been associated with the Pawar family for a long time.

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He said the party and the family had entrusted different individuals with the responsibility of immersing the ashes at major religious centres across various states.

Dubey said he was assigned the responsibility for Kashi in Uttar Pradesh. He added that they reached Mirzapur on Thursday via Delhi Airport from Pune, where they had attended a condolence meeting. After paying tributes, they proceeded to Assi Ghat in Kashi.

He said that ashes were also immersed in Prayagraj by another group. Uttar Pradesh NCP state president and national general secretary Dhananjay Sharma, along with several members of the party’s executive committee, were present on the occasion.

All of them boarded a boat and immersed the ashes in the Ganga amid Vedic chants.