Vajpayee`s Asthi Kalash Yatra in WB rescheduled
(WorldNews India)

KOLKATA: The Asthi Kalash Yatra of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in West Bengal is rescheduled after the BJP leaders in New Delhi insisted on keeping the ashes for a day more at the party headquarter on Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay Marg. The yatra in Bengal- a religious ritual that involves immersing the ashes of the late prime minister into the Ganges, was earlier scheduled to start from Monday. After his cremation at the Smriti Sthal on August 17, Vajpayee`s foster daughter Namita Bhattacharya and granddaughter Niharika collected the ashes. BJP leaders then decided that the...