Team News Riveting
Bengaluru, June 2
In an exemplary display of humanitarian and noble gesture, Karnataka’s revenue minister R Ashoka came forward to immerse the ashes of COVID-19 victims with full honour and rituals.
The ashes were unclaimed and lying in different crematorium across Bengaluru as the family members failed to collect it for some or the other reasons. The final rituals of cremation, according to Hindu customs, are performed with immersing ashes.
Ashoka took the initiative to collect the ashes of 1,200 COVID-19 victims in the urns. It was left uncollected in various crematoriums of Bengaluru.
The minister had earlier said they were trying to get in touch with the families, but their phone numbers are not reachable. Since not many were coming forward to collect the ashes due to various difficulties, the Revenue Department decided to immerse the ashes as per customs, the minister said.
Ashoka performed the entire rituals and immersed the ashes. His gesture had been widely appreciated in the social media. “Garud Puran states that if a person’s funeral is not done by the kin, it is the duty of the Government (King) to give a right send off to the soul. Thank y’all for the up keeping of Dharma,” one commented.
True, the Karnataka minister proved it.
