Also Read: Ashok Gehlot, Vasundhara Raje condole Arun Jaitley's demise

BJP veteran LK Advani, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, party president and Home Minister Amit Shah, party's working president J P Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman, Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur; BJP MPs Vijay Goel and Vinay Sahasrabuddhe; Congress leaders Jyotiraditya Scindia and Kapil Sibal were among those present at the cremation ground. Chief ministers of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Bihar and Uttarakhand, Vijay Rupani, Devendra Fadnavis, Nitish Kumar, B S Yediyurappa, and Trivendra Singh Rawat, respectively, were also there.

Poll

Who will win the Punjab Elections?

BJP 32.86%

AAP 41.43%

INC 25.71%

Submit

View All In Poll

Also Read: Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Arun Jaitley: Brightest sun of Indian politics has set

Earlier in the day, BJP leader's body was taken to the BJP headquarters from where it was carried in a flower-decked gun carriage to the cremation ground, amidst slogans of 'Jaitley ji amar rahein' (long live Jaitley). BJP workers and mourners queued up outside the party headquarters in large numbers since morning to pay their last respects to the leader. Posters remembering Jaitley have been put up on the roads leading to the Nigambodh Ghat, on the banks of the Yamuna river.

With inputs from PTI

Also Read: Arun Jaitley's body being taken to Nigambodh Ghat

Catch up on all the latest Crime, National, International and Hatke news here. Also download the new mid-day Android and iOS apps to get latest updates