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Vice-President M.
Venkaiah Naidu, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and party’s national president Amit Shah were expected to attend the last rites. The 59-year-old, who was ailing from cancer, died on Monday at a private hospital here due to multiple organ failure. Sadananda Gowda and Ramesh Jigjinagi, party’s members of Parliament and the state legislature among others gathered to pay their final floral tributes. Many of the cadres arrived across the state by overnight trains, buses and private vehicles, Shantaram said. Bengaluru: Hundreds of BJP leaders and cadres on Tuesday paid their last respects to the mortal remains of Union Minister Ananth Kumar, who suddenly passed away here a day before, an official said..