Former Indian President APJ Kalam, buried with full military honors in
In the same mission, he attended the Indian Institute Management IIM, Shillong-India. He was pronounced dead at 7.45pm.
Advocate K Baalu appearing for the Advocates Forum for Social Justice urged the court to order closure of all Tasmac shops in the state on Thursday when funeral of the former president is going to be held at Rameswaram in Ramanathapuram district. Every Indian respects him highly, as do all political parties, and he was elected unopposed. Tamil Nadu. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other dignitaries attended the funeral.
“I have been greatly impressed by the farsighted thoughts and principals of Kalam“.
Modi, who arrived Rameswaram in the morning, paid his last respects to the country’s youth icon and most popular president by laying a wreath.
Both the government and opposition have mourned Kalam’s death and described him as a great scientific mind and an inspiration for millions of young Indians. Mr L.K. Advani, who was deputy prime minister when Dr Kalam became president, said he “served Mother India literally until the last breath”. Seeing Rahul, Karnataka BJP leader B.S. Yeddyurappa stood up to greet the Congress vice-president. While expressing grief over the demise of Kalam, who passed away on Monday, Anushka spelt the Missile Man’s name incorrectly on micro-blogging site Twitter. Thousands of people from across the State joined in the last procession of the People’s President.
More than 100,000 people from across the state gathered July 30 for a last glimpse of the former president, whose five-year term ended in 2007.
“It is certainly a big loss to Indian science. He was a humanist who loved human values”, he said.
Meanwhile, in a rare gesture, authorities of the famed Ramathaswamy Temple in Rameswaram conducted a special pooja by lighting “Moksha Deepam” to pray for Kalam’s soul.
A recipient of several Indian and global doctorates and honours including Canada’s very own University of Waterloo, Kalam was bestowed heaps of praise but he remained extremely humble despite his success.
The meeting which was chaired by senior advocate Khalid Khan ended on a sombre note by observing a minute’s silence in honour of Dr Kalam. Kalam had come to our school.
“I don’t know much about people like him”. His focus was on transforming India into a developed nation by 2020.
Former President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam died on July 27, 2015, at Shillong in Meghalaya. This led to Kalam putting all his knowledge and technology towards India’s nuclear program.
The chief minister had on Friday declared the renaming of UPTU And had said he would soon announce programmes and projects in the memory of Kalam. A new agriculture college in Kishanganj, Bihar, will also be named after him.
We were informed by Kalam’s office that though he did not launch books, he could accept the First Copy provided “he gets convinced about the nature of the book”.