NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and A.K. Anthony and former Delhi Congress presidents Ajay Maken and Arvinder Singh Lovely were among senior leaders who paid homage to former chief minister late Sheila Dikshit at a function organised by the party here on Sunday.
AAP’s disgruntled MLA Alka Lamba also attended the prayer meeting. Thousands of Congress workers and leaders participated in the prayer-meeting.
Former three-time Delhi chief minister Dikshit suffered cardiac arrest and passed away at a hospital on July 20. She was 81.
A brief film on Dikshit’s life and works was screened at the prayer meeting. Famous Dhrupad singh Wasifuddin Dagar rendered devotional songs on the occasion.
Dikshit had taken over as the president of the Delhi Congress in January this year. She managed to increase the vote share of the party in the 2019 parliamentary polls. Delhi Congress leaders, including working presidents Haroon Yusuf, Rajesh Lilothia and Devender Yadav, former presidents Subhash Chopra, J.P. Agarwal, Ajay Maken, Arvinder Lovely, among others, too, paid tributes to the veteran leader.
Dikshit’s son Sandip Dikshit, daughter Latika and sister Rama Dhawan were present in the prayer meeting.
