Jaipur, April 1
Mortal remains of retired Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla, the face of the 2008 Gurjar quota agitation in Rajasthan and a war veteran, were consigned to flames with full military honours on Friday in Mundia village in Karauli district.
Bainsla died of prolonged illness at his village home on Thursday, his family members said. He was 84.
The Gurjar leader’s body was kept at a house in Jaipur for paying tributes and taken to Mundia village in a decorated Indian Army truck on Friday.
A large number of people and his supporters followed the truck on bikes and cars raising slogans and hailing Bainsla.
Thousands of people, including women, reached the village and also the cremation ground to pay their tributes to him. His eldest son lit the funeral pyre.
