Sachin breaks down for Sai in Puttaparthi

Apr 26, 2011 |

PUTTAPARTHI

Tags:

PTI4_25_2011_000059A.jpg.crop_display.jpg

In his death as in his life, Satya Sai Baba united king and commoner as politicians, industrialists, cricketers and celebrities queued up along with thousands of mourners at Puttaparthi on Monday to pay tribute to the spiritual guru.

Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar, long-time devotees of the Baba, wept as they sat beside his body. The Union minister Mr Vilas Rao Deshmukh, a host of state ministers also made the pilgrimage to Prashanthi Nilayam, where the Baba’s body lay in state.

On Tuesday, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, the UPA chairperson, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, the Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, the BJP leader, Mr L.K. Advani, among others will land at Puttaparthi to pay their respects.

The mortal remains of Baba will be kept for public darshan till 6 pm on Tuesday, when over one lakh devotees are expected to file past the body.

Sachin Tendulkar broke down while paying his last respects to the Baba on Monday. Accompanied
by wife, Dr Anjali, and friend, Mr V. Chamundeshwarnath, Sachin sat beside Baba’s body for around half-an-hour from 10.16 am.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/70007" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-c4f68a57a39cd89608627b800fa7cb38" value="form-c4f68a57a39cd89608627b800fa7cb38" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="90542407" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>