<p class="title rtejustify">Hundreds of people queued up here outside the residence of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee this morning to pay their last respects to the departed leader.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Heavy security arrangements, including deployment of police, traffic and paramilitary personnel, were in place around the 6-A Krishna Menon Marg bungalow in the Lutyens Delhi.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">According to security officials present here, the gates of the residence would be thrown open at 7.30 am for the public to pay homage to Vajpayee.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The mortal remains would later be taken to the Bharatiya Janata Party's national headquarters at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The final journey to the Rashtriya Smriti Sthal would begin around 1 pm.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Vajpayee died at the AIIMS hospital here yesterday at the age of 93, following a prolonged illness.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">A 52-year-old man, Yogesh Kumar, arrived here with a group of people from Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The group covered a distance of around 500-km overnight in the hope to have one last glimpse of their beloved leader, Kumar said.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"I had met Vajpayee ji in 1984 when he had visited Uttarkashi en route to Gangotri. He visited the town once again in 1986," Kumar claimed, as he displayed a picture of the Vajpayee with him.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"I have also brought along the Gangajal from Gangotri," he said, hoping to find an opportunity to see him.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Another man, in his early 20s, said he had come all the way from Bihar to pay homage to the former prime minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"I believe we have lost a great leader in him," he said. </p>
<p class="title rtejustify">Hundreds of people queued up here outside the residence of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee this morning to pay their last respects to the departed leader.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Heavy security arrangements, including deployment of police, traffic and paramilitary personnel, were in place around the 6-A Krishna Menon Marg bungalow in the Lutyens Delhi.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">According to security officials present here, the gates of the residence would be thrown open at 7.30 am for the public to pay homage to Vajpayee.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The mortal remains would later be taken to the Bharatiya Janata Party's national headquarters at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The final journey to the Rashtriya Smriti Sthal would begin around 1 pm.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Vajpayee died at the AIIMS hospital here yesterday at the age of 93, following a prolonged illness.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">A 52-year-old man, Yogesh Kumar, arrived here with a group of people from Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The group covered a distance of around 500-km overnight in the hope to have one last glimpse of their beloved leader, Kumar said.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"I had met Vajpayee ji in 1984 when he had visited Uttarkashi en route to Gangotri. He visited the town once again in 1986," Kumar claimed, as he displayed a picture of the Vajpayee with him.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"I have also brought along the Gangajal from Gangotri," he said, hoping to find an opportunity to see him.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Another man, in his early 20s, said he had come all the way from Bihar to pay homage to the former prime minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"I believe we have lost a great leader in him," he said. </p>