SRINAGAR: Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who died at a hospital in Delhi today, was laid to rest with full State honours in his ancestral graveyard of Bijbehara town in Anantnag district.
The mortal remains of Sayeed reached his official residence on Gupkar Road in Srinagar amidst sloganeering by supporters and workers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which he founded in 1999.
Sayeed’s coffin, draped in the National Tricolour and Red-and-White flag of JK, was later taken from his official residence to the ancestral graveyard in Anantnag.
Close relatives and senior PDP leaders were among those who had a final glimpse of Sayeed’s body before it was given a customary ablution as per Islamic rites necessary before burial.
The ‘Namaaz-e-Janazah’ (funeral prayers) of the departed leader was offered in the Sher-e-Kashmir Cricket Stadium at Sonawar here, in which thousands of the mourners took part.
PDP workers had assembled from the length and breadth of the Kashmir Valley to pay their last respect to the two-time Chief Minister.
Former chief ministers of the State– Omar Abdullah and Ghulam Nabi Azad– were among those who attended the funeral prayers which were led by Sayeed’s trusted aide, Education Minister Naeem Akhtar. (AGENCIES)
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