Industrialist Rahul Bajaj cremated with state honours
Top businessmen, political leaders among attendees at funeral in Pune
The last rites of Industrialist and Padma Bhushanawardee, Rahul Bajaj, were performed with full state honours at Vaikuntha crematorium in Pune yesterday.
He had passed away at the age of 83 on Saturday.
His sons, Sanjeev and Rajiv Bajaj, performed the last rites with full state honour prior to the electric cremation of the mortal remains. Rajiv Bajaj was handed over the national flag.
Full attendance
Top business leaders, along with Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Dilip Walse Patil, Baba Ramdev, Supriya Sule Pune, Commissioner of Police Amitabh Gupta, were among the key attendees.
Bajaj breathed his last at Ruby Hall Hospital in Pune at 2:30pm on Saturday.
Dr Parvez Grant, Chairman, Ruby Hall Clinic, said that Rahul Bajaj passed away at Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune at 2:30pm on Saturday. He was under treatment for cardiac and lungrelated problems for the last month.
Earlier, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had announced that Rahul Bajaj’s funeral will be held on Sunday with full state honours.
Born on June 10, 1938, Rahul Bajaj held a Bachelor’s degree in economics, a law degree from Mumbai University and an MBA from Harvard.
Former RS member
Bajaj was a former member of the Rajya Sabha. Besides, he had been the chairman of the International Business Council at the World Economic Forum.
Bajaj was one of the longestserving chairmen of corporate India.
He served as president of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) twice.
He also rendered his services as president of CII from 1979 to 1980 and again from 1999 to 2000. As per February 2021, Rahul Bajaj was ranked at 421 on the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires with a net worth of $8.2 billion.
Rahul Bajaj also held many other positions, including the chairman of Indian Airlines and chairman of the board of governors of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.