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Vice Prez, PM pay homage to Basu

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 21 2013 | 1:24 AM IST

Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today visited the CPI (M) headquarters here to pay homage to Marxist veteran Jyoti Basu.

Singh reached the AKG Bhawan at Gole Market, the CPM Headquarters, at 11.10 am and paid floral tributes to Basu, who died in Kolkata yesterday after fighting a battle with pneumonia.

The Prime Minister also signed the condolence book.

Earlier, Ansari paid floral tributes to Basu and also signed the condolence book.

CPI(M) Politburo members Sitaram Yechury and K Vardarajan were present at the party headquarters when the Prime Minister visited it.

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First Published: Jan 18 2010 | 11:50 AM IST

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