Basant Kumar Birla who is also known as BK Birla passed away on Wednesday at the age of 98. The veteran industrialist who had been suffering from age-related ailments for a long time was cremated on Thursday in Kolkata. Members of the Birla family bid an emotional adieu to its Birla Group patriarch B K Birla as his last rites were performed in the city of Kolkata on the auspicious day of Rath Yatra.

People and well-wishers stand in a queue to pay their last tributes to Birla Group patriarch BK Birla during his funeral ceremony in Kolkata. All Pics/PTI