New Delhi: The Government of India as mark of respect to Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, who passed away on Thursday, has decided that the National Flag will be flown at half mast in Delhi and the Capitals of all States and Union Territories where it is regularly flown, on October 9, 2020 and on the day of the funeral, at the place where the funeral takes place.
It has also been decided that a State Funeral will be accorded to the departed dignitary.
Paswan died at a Delhi hospital where he was recuperating from heart surgery. The 74-year-old was undergoing treatment at the hospital, and had to undergo surgery last Saturday “due to the situation that had suddenly emerged,” his son Chirag Paswan had tweeted on Saturday.
