Bengaluru, Oct 30 (PTI) Veteran RSS Pracharak and former Pranth Prachar Pramukh of Karnataka, Chandrashekar Bhandari died at a private hospital here on Sunday afternoon,

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According to RSS, the 87-year-old breathed his last at 3 PM.

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He had served as the former State Organising Secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Sahitya Parishad, Founder Trustee of VSK (Vishwa Samvada Kendra) Karnataka, and was also an author and a poet.

His mortal remains will be kept at 'Keshava Krupa', the RSS Karnataka headquarters here between 8 and 9 AM on Monday, for people to pay their last respects, and the last rites will be performed at Banashankari crematorium here at 10 AM, RSS said in a statement.

It said, RSS Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat, general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale, Kshetriya Sanghachalak V Nagaraj, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa among others have expressed grief over Bhandari's death.

"Deeply saddened to hear the news of the passing away of Shri Chandrasekhara Bhandari, a senior Pracharak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, famous author, orator and a thorough gentleman. I pray to God to bless his soul with peace. Om Shanti," Bommai said in a tweet.

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