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Gadkari given additional charge of portfolios held by Gopinath Munde

New Delhi, June 04 (ANI): The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed that Union Road Transport, Highways and Shipping minister Nitin Gadkari has been entrusted with additional charge of the ministries of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation. Gadkari has been asked to handle portfolios held by Gopinath Munde who had tragically died due to a car crash. Munde was cremated with full state honours in his ancestral village in Parli in Maharashtra’s Beed district. Jun 5, 2014
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Mohan Bhagwat's convoy hit by car in Delhi, all safe

New Delhi, June 04 (ANI): A day after senior BJP leader and Union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde died in a road accident in New Delhi's Moti Bagh area, a car rammed into RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's convoy on Wednesday. However, nobody was injured in the incident and the RSS chief is completely safe. Jun 4, 2014
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Gopinath Munde's body cremated, daughter lit the funeral pyre

Parli, June 04 (ANI): Senior BJP leader and Union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde who died in a road accident in New Delhi on June 03 was cremated with full state honours in his birth place Parli in Maharashtra. The senior BJP leader was sworn in as the Cabinet Minister last week. Munde's funeral pyre was lighted by his daughter Pankaja. Earlier, thousands of mourners, including senior party leaders, activists and commoners received the coffin at Latur airport. Jun 4, 2014
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Chaos at Gopinath Munde's funeral venue; cremation this afternoon

Parli, June 4 (ANI): Union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde, who died after a road accident in Delhi yesterday, will be cremated with full state honours at his native village in Maharashtra's Beed district this afternoon. His body was brought to Latur, 485 kilometers from Mumbai, this morning from where it was taken to Nathra, a 2500-strong village in Beed's Parli taluka. Jun 4, 2014
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16th LS pays homage to Munde, House adjourned till Thursday

New Delhi, June 04 (ANI): The first session of the 16th Lok Sabha convened on a sad note on Wednesday, with a tribute to senior BJP leader and union rural development minister Gopinath Munde, who was killed in a car accident yesterday. The session got underway with protem speaker Kamal Nath paying tribute to Munde and asking for the house to observe two minutes of silence. Nath praised Munde's work and recounted his long and illustrious political career in Maharashtra, which culminated in his appointment as the minister for rural affairs. After paying tribute to Munde the house was adjourned till Thursday. Jun 4, 2014
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Kamal Nath takes oath as pro-tem Speaker of Lok Sabha

New Delhi, June 04 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath took oath as the pro-tem Speaker of the Lok Sabha at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Wednesday. He will preside over the Lok Sabha proceedings till the election of a new speaker on June 06. This piquant situation has arisen out of the untimely death of Union minister Gopinath Munde on Tuesday. Jun 4, 2014