Rahul, Kejriwal attend ex-jawan's funeral

Amid tight security, ex-serviceman Ram Kishan Grewal, whose alleged suicide over 'one rank, one pension' triggered a political storm, was on Thursday cremated in his native village in Haryana in the presence of hundreds of people including Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.

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Grewal's eldest son Dilawar lit the pyre at around noon in the presence of a large number of people who had gathered from nearby areas in Bamla, 20km away from Bhiwani. The 70-year-old ex-serviceman, who was a former sarpanch of his village, committed suicide by consuming poison at a park in New Delhi on Tuesday evening.

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The incident snowballed into a political row on Wednesday with the Congress vice-president, Kejriwal and other opposition leaders attacking the Modi government+ on the issue while there was high drama that continued late into the night after police detained and prevented them from entering a hospital in Delhi where Grewal's body was kept. Tight security arrangements were made on Thursday in view of the events in New Delhi.

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Rahul, who travelled by road, spent a few minutes with the grieving family members of Grewal. He had to jostle with the crowd to reach the family members of Grewal as slogans of "Ram Kishan amar rahe" rented the air.

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Other Congress leaders including former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Haryana Congress president Ashok Tanwar, Leader of Congress Legislature Party (CLP) Kiran Chaudhary, Selja and Kuldip Bishnoi werea also present.
Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Randeep Singh Surjewala and TMC's Derek O Brien also reached the village.

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