KATHMANDU: Leaders of various political parties on Saturday paid final tributes to Mangal Siddhi Manandhar, former minister and Federal Socialist Forum-Nepal leader, who had died on Friday.

Speaker Onsari Gharti, CPN Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Maoist leader Barshaman Pun, CPN-Revolutionary Maoist Vice-Chairman CP Gajurel, CPN-UML Secretary Pradeep Gyawali, lawmaker Shyam Shrestha among others had reached Khulamanch, where Manandhar's body was kept, for the tributes.

CPN Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal pays final tribute to former minsiter Mangal Siddhi Manandhar, who died on Friday, in Kathmandu, on Saturday, July 2, 2016. Photo: RSS

Earlier, his body was kept at the FSF-N central office in Tinkune and the Tri-Chandra College, where he taught geology for years.

According to the party, Manandhar would be cremated at the Pashupati Aryaghat as per the family tradition today itself.