Jayalalithaa not to attend Abdul Kalam’s funeral in Rameswaram

“The Chinese side expressed deep condolences on the death of Dr. Kalam, to the Indian government and people as well as conveyed honest condolences to his family”, it said in a written response to a question from PTI.

Dr. Kalam who is well-known as people’s president, Missile man was died on 27 July, 2015 while taking a lecture at the Indian Institute of Management Shillong.

“Considered a great and honest friend to Seychelles, he will be sorely missed. We have a lot to learn from his life”.

Even after his presidential term, Dr Kalam received hundreds of emails from young people seeking his advice.

Seychelles is a founding member of the global Coalition of Tourism Partners (ICTP) . “He loved students and spent his final moments among the”, Modi also wrote.

After the guard of honour, Kalam’s body was kept at the Army special helicopter and Governor V. Shanmuganathan, Speaker AT Mondal and Home Minister Roshan Warjri accompanied the body first to Guwahati and then to Delhi.

President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the nation yesterday paying tributes to former president A P J Abdul Kalam. “It is hard to overestimate his personal contribution to social, economic, scientific and technical progress of India and in ensuring its national security”, he said.

A host of global leaders, including US President Barack Obama, had extended their condolenceson the death of the former president.

“I was honoured to meet Dr Kalam when he visited Singapore in 2006”. Instead, she had deputed ministers O Panneerselvam (finance), Natham R Viswanathan (electricity), R Vaithialingam (housing), Edapadi K Palaniswamy (highways), P Palaniappan (higher education), S Sundararaj (youth welfare and sports) and R B Udayakumar (revenue) to attend the funeral.

The group said one of the greatest testaments of his visionary thinking is the “India Vision 2020″, a comprehensive strategy to transform India into a developed country by 2020.

“Kalam stressed that India has vast land in southern parts…the eastern states and in Himalayas which could be encouraged for the mass-scale growth of medicinal plants”, Patel recalled.