BJP MP Ram Swaroop Sharma cremated with state honors
BJP MP from Himachal Pradesh Ram Swaroop Sharma, who was found hanging from the ceiling in his official residence in New Delhi, was cremated with full state honors at Machhayal village in the Mandi district on Thursday. His son Shanti Swaroop Sharma lit the pyre. A number of people, including Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, attended the funeral.
Thakur also expressed his condolences to the family
Thakur also visited Sharma's native village Jalpehar near Jogindernagar in the Mandi district to express his condolences to his family members. He prayed to the almighty to give peace to the departed soul and strength to the bereaved family members to bear this irreparable loss.
Other ministers and BJP leaders who attended the cremation
Former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, Jal Shakti Minister Mahender Singh Thakur, Social Justice, and Empowerment Minister Sarveen Chaudhary attended the funeral. Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs Minister Rajinder Garg, MP and BJP State President Suresh Kashyap, MP Kishan Kapoor, MLA Vinod Kumar, Hira Lal, Jawahar Thakur and Prakash Rana, and Vice-Chairman of the State Finance Commission Satpal Singh Satti were also present.
Sharma was a two-time MP from the Mandi parliamentary constituency
Sixty-two-year-old Sharma had been suffering from various ailments. Born at Jalpehar village in the Mandi district on June 10, 1958, Sharma was a two-time MP. He rose from a grassroots level worker and was a committed RSS worker. He was elected to the 16th and 17th Lok Sabha from Mandi parliamentary constituency in 2014 and 2019, respectively.
