New Delhi: As a mark of respect to the departed dignitary, Sir Anerood Jugnauth, the Government of India has decided that there will be one day’s State Mourning tomorrow, June 5, 2021, throughout India.
Jugnauth was a former President and former Prime Minister of the Republic of Mauritius. He passed away on June 3, 2021.
Born and brought up in Palma in a Hindu Yadava family on March 29, 1930, he had his roots in Bihar. His grandfather had migrated to Mauritius from Bihar in the 1850s.
The Indian National Flag will be flown at half-mast on the day of the mourning throughout India on all buildings where the National Flag is flown regularly and there will be no official entertainment on the day.
A prominent figure of Mauritian politics in the 1980s and 1990s, Jugnauth was the country’s Leader of the Opposition from 1976 to 1982, the year when he took charge as the Prime Minister. He served as Prime Minister from 1982 to 1995 and again from 2000 to 2003, when he was elected as President of Mauritius. He served as President till 2012. Following his party’s victory in the 2014 general elections, he was appointed again to serve his sixth term as Prime Minister by President Kailash Purryag on December 14, 2014.
He is the longest serving prime minister with more than 18 years of tenure.
Photo credit: By ICJ
– global bihari bureau
