LUCKNOW: Senior
BJP leaders, including an MP and a legislator in the state Assembly, had a providential escape on Saturday when the boat they had taken to immerse the ashes of late
PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee overturned in a river in Basti.
Former state BJP chief Ramapati Ram Tripathi, MP Harish Dwivedi, legislator Daya Ram Chowdhary and senior BJP leaders and SP Dilip Kumar were on the overcrowded boat, sources said.
They said the boat overturned.
District magistrate Raj Shekhar said the incident happened near the banks, so nothing major happened and those who had fallen into the river were brought to safety immediately.
Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
