Condolence
Top BJP leaders paid rich tributes to former Gujarat & Rajasthan governor Kailashpati Mishra at a condolence meeting held at Rabindra Bhavan, Patna on Friday (9 November 2012).
BJP president Nitin Gadkari recalled Mishra's contribution in strengthening the party's base since his joining the Jan Sangh in 1959. "BJP is in government in eight states and has hundreds of MLAs mainly because of the sacrifices made by leaders like Kailashji," said Gadkari.
Describing Mishra as 'Rajniti ke Ajatshatru,' leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, said Kailashji always maintained a cordial relation even with the leaders of other parties.
The second in command of the RSS, Suresh Soni, BJP MP and film actor Shatrughan Sinha, party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad, deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, state BJP president Dr. C.P.Thakur, state Janata Dal (United) president Vashistha Narayan Singh, Bihar Assembly speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary, RJD leader Shakuni Chaudhary, former Bihar legislative council chairperson Tarakant Jha, Congress leader Vinod Sharma, Communist Party of India leaders Badri Narayan Lal and Kedar Pandey and several state level BJP leaders also recalled Mishra's contribution to the state politics.
Former civil aviation minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain recalled the rechristening of the Port Blair Airport as Veer Sawarkar International Airport in 2002. Hussain said it was only after the suggestion of Kailashji that the airport was renamed when he had taken charge as the civil aviation minister.). "When I conveyed Kailashji's message to the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the latter happily agreed to rename the airport," Hussain said.
BJP's ex-president Rajnath Singh also recalled how Kailashji had refused nomination to the Rajya Sabha for a second term and opted to work for the organization at a time when party leaders were virtually gatecrashing for a ticket to the Upper House.
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