Kolkata, Jan 17 (Inditop.com) Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu will not be cremated but his body will be handed over Tuesday to a state-run hospital as he had donated his body, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) announced Sunday.
Basu’s body, now preserved in a funeral parlour, Peace Heaven, will be taken in a procession Tuesday to state secretariat Writers’ Building and then to the West Bengal assembly, where it will be kept for the public to pay homage.
Finally, the body will be handed over to the FSKM Hospital, said CPI-M state secretary Biman Bose.
Basu died in Kolkata Sunday.
