New Delhi: VHP leader Ashok Singhal was cremated here on Wednesday, with thousands paying their last respects and senior VHP colleagues calling for a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya in his memory.

Cries of "Jai Shri Ram" rent the air to honour Singhal, who died at 89 a day earlier in a Gurgaon hospital following heart and kidney ailments, as the funeral pyre was lit at the Nigam Bodh Ghat.