Bangaru Adigalar laid to rest with state honours

Chennai: Spiritual guru Bangaru Adigalar was laid to rest on Friday at Melmaruvathur near Chennai with full state honours, marked by a gun salute.

A sea of devotees thronged Melmaruvathur, about 97 km from here since Thursday evening to pay homage to their guru and Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi and Chief Minister M K Stalin paid floral tributes to the departed spiritual leader.

Police personnel in ceremonial attire gave a gun salute and after last rites were performed by family members, the body was buried on the premises of the Melmaruvathur temple. Governor Ravi and Higher Education Minister K Ponmudi were present during the gun salute.

Jharkhand Governor C P Radhakrishnan, Union Minister of State L Murugan, DMK MP Jagathrakshakan were among a host of others who paid their tributes.

Leaders of political parties including AIADMK's C Ve Shanmugam, PMK's Anbumani Ramadoss and BJP's K Annamalai paid homage. Adigalar died on Thursday. He was 82.