LIVE: Gopinath Munde's body reaches Mumbai; funeral tomorrow

Mumbai: The body of BJP leader and Union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde, who died in a road accident in Delhi, reached Mumbai this evening.The special plane carrying the body, accompanied by Munde's relatives and party members, landed at the domestic airport here. The body was taken to ‘Poorna' building in Worli, Munde's residence here.Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, MNS chief Raj Thackeray, BJP MP Hema Malini and NCP leaders Chhagan Bhujbal and Praful Patel visited Munde's residence to pay respects.The body will be later kept at the state BJP office in south Mumbai to enable people pay respects to the departed leader.It would be flown to Latur in central Maharashtra tomorrow morning. From Latur, the body will be taken to Parali in Beed district (Munde's Lok Sabha constituency), around 70 km from Latur.Munde family hails from Nathra village near Parali.The funeral is expected to take place at around 4.30 pm in the premises of a sugar factory founded by Munde near Parali tomorrow, party sources said.Union minister Gopinath Munde's liver was ruptured in the road accident and he suffered a cardiac arrest due to shock, as per preliminary postmortem report by a team of doctors at AIIMS here.“His liver was ruptured which caused internal bleeding. Due to the sudden shock/impact, he then suffered cardiac arrest. None of the external wounds were fatal enough to cause death,” AIIMS sources said.Munde's postmortem was conducted by a medical board at AIIMS after which his body was taken to BJP headquarters at 11 Ashoka Road.At around 12:40 PM, an open army truck which had Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Harsh Vardha and Munde's family left the hospital followed by an ambulance carrying Munde's body.Munde, who made his entry into the Union Cabinet for the first time last week, was on his way to the airport when his car was hit by another vehicle at Prithviraj Road-Tughlak road roundabout in the heart of the capital.He was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared him dead around 7:50, said Gadkari.Though Munde did not suffer any injuries, he apparently suffered a shock in the impact of accident.Munde asked for water from his security guard Nair who was sitting in front of the car and told him to take him to the hospital.Twitter has been flooded with tweets from leading minters of condolence messages on Munde's sad demise.President Pranab Mukherjee also tweeted his condolence message on the same. Gopinath Munde ji was a true mass leader. Hailing from backward sections of society, he rose to great heights and tirelessly served people, tweets PM Modi.My condolences to the family and followers of Shri Gopinath Mundeji, tweets A P J Abdul Kalam. I am shocked to know about sudden demise of my senior colleague Shri Gopinath Munde. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family, tweets Minister of External affairs, Sushma Swaraj. Very sad to hear the demise of Shri Gopinath Munde. Heartfelt condolence to bereaved family. May his soul rest in peace, tweets Arvind Kejriwal.Shaken at the News of Gopinath Munde passing away. I have lost a friend, tweets Arun Jatley.Here are LIVE updates.Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays his respects to body of ministerial colleague Gopinath Munde at BJP headquarters.Gopinath Munde's dead body brought to BJP headquarters.Munde died due to internal bleeding and cardiac arrest, said doctors.Postmortem of Gopinath Munde's body at AIIMS over.Gopinath Munde died due to heart attack, sources.Munde's family reaches AIIMS.Gopinath Munde's dead body will be taken to Purna building in Worli at 5 p.m.At 5:45 Munde's dead body will be taken to Maharashtra BJP Headquater, where his body will be kept for last respect till 12:00 a.m.Tomorrow his body will be taken to his home town Parli-Beed by private jet.Gopinath Munde's dead body collected from AIIMS by family members.6 a.m.: Munde starts from his house to reach the Indira Gandhi International Airport.6.20 a.m.: Munde's Maruti Suzuki SX4 car hit by a Tata Indica at Aurobindo Marg in south Delhi, from the side where he was seated.6.30 a.m.: Taken to the Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre at AIIMS6.35 a.m.: Munde's security personnel hand over the driver of the Tata Indica to Delhi Police7.20 a.m.: The senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader declared dead by AIIMS.4 p.m.: Union cabinet to meet to condole his passing away.Gopinath Munde's body reaches Delhi Airport.Security tightened at VIP gate of domestic airport.4: 59 : The swearing in of Protem Speaker will be held tomorrow at 10 am because summonses have been issued, says Venkaiah Naidu.5:01: Drive of Indica - Gurvinder to be taken to Patiala Court 5:07: Gurvinder given bail on personal bond and security bond of 30,000 each. Police wanted Gurvinder under custody for 2 days but Patiala Court termed it as a bailable offense and granted him bail.5: 29: Intelligence Bureau and Special Cell are probing the conspiracy angle, if any, in the case, Delhi Police tells court.6:22:Gopinath Munde's cremation will take place tomorrow with full state honor 6:42: Gopinath Munde's body reaches Mumbai7:04: Yedurappa reaches Gopinath Munde's home7:30 : Western Express highway blocked for quick passage of Gopinath Munde's body to his home. 7:38 Gopinath Munde's body reaches his home.7:45: Hema Malini, Ramdas Athavale, Jogender Kawade to reach Munde's house shortly. Uddhav Thackeray with his family will also visit Munde's house to pay homage.7: 47: Praful Patel and Raj Thackeray reach Munde's house.8:23: Gopinath Munde's body being taken to the BJP office in an ambulance.