An emotional farewell to Jagmohan Dalmiya

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From his former rivals N Srinivasan and Sharad Pawar to the present BCCI heavyweights, the Indian cricket fraternity bid an emotional farewell to Jagmohan Dalmiya on Monday, who was laid to rest with full state honour and gun salute.

The 75-year-old cricket administrator passed away at 8.45 pm on Sunday following a large cardiac arrest
on the B M Birla Coronary heart Analysis Centre the place he was admitted on Thursday night.

The cricket fraternity mourned the lack of the person who’s credited for making the game well-liked and wealthy, prompting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to announce full state honours for the departed Dalmiya.