A sea of humanity poured out on all roads leading to Babhalgaon village in this Maharashtra district as thousands paid their last tributes to their beloved leader and union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh whose last rites were held Wednesday. Deshmukh's eldest son and Latur legislator Amit performed the last rites of his father at a family farm in his native village.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, and other union ministers including Praful Patel, Vayalar Ravi, Rajiv Shukla and Mukul Wasnik, among others, were present at the funeral.
Image: Crowd of mourners during the funeral ceremony of Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh in Latur on Wednesday, August 15, 2012.
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Text: IANS
