One-day state mourning as mark of respect to Balramji Dass Tandon

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 15

The Haryana government has decided to observe one-day State mourning throughout on August 16 as a mark of respect to Governor of Chhattisgarh, Balramji Dass Tandon, who breathed his last at Raipur on Tuesday.

While stating this here today, an official spokesman said during the state mourning, the National Flag would be flown at half-mast where it is regularly flown and there would be no official entertainment during this period.

Tandon (90), one of the founding members of the BJP's parent organisation, the Jan Sangh, died  at the government-run Dr B R Ambedkar Memorial Hospital in Raipur after suffering a heart attack.