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R S Gavai cremated with state honours

Updated on: 27 July,2015 06:48 AM IST  | 
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Veteran Dalit leader and former Governor of Bihar and Kerala, R S Gavai, was cremated on Sunday with state honours in Amravati district

R S Gavai cremated with state honours

Veteran Dalit leader and former Governor of Bihar and Kerala, R S Gavai, was cremated on Sunday with state honours in Amravati district.


R S Gavai
R S Gavai


His sons Justice Bhushan Gavai, who is a Bombay High Court judge, and Rajendra, a leader of the Republican Party of India jointly lit the funeral pyre.


Gavai had passed away at a private hospital in Nagpur after a prolonged illness on Saturday. He was 86.

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