Ratan Tata Passes Away: Politicians, India Inc, celebrities, staff — all pay their last respects
Ratan Tata | Besides Tata Group’s top executives, including chairman N Chandrasekaran, India Inc was represented by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani, Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla and banker Deepak Parekh among others.
Politicans to corporate leaders, celebrities to common people, Tata Group employees to shareholders — thousands from all walks of life lined up to pay their last respects to industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Naval Tata, 86, in Mumbai on Thursday.
Cutting across party lines, those present included Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, his deputies Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Congress leader and former Maharashtra CM Sushilkumar Shinde, NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and MNS chief Raj Thackeray.
Besides Tata Group’s top executives, including chairman N Chandrasekaran, India Inc was represented by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani, Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla and banker Deepak Parekh among others.
People waited in long queues, at the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) where the body was brought from Tata’s Colaba residence in the morning, as well as the Worli crematorium where the last rites were performed with full state honours in the evening.
