NEW DELHI - India’s President Pranab Mukherjee will lead a five-member delegation to the memorial service of former South African President Nelson Mandela on Dec 10. The delegation comprises ruling UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj, Union Commerce and Industries Minister Anand Sharma, Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury and Bahujan Samaj Paaarty leader Satish Mishta. Senior officials from Ministry of External Affairs and Rashtrapati Bhavan were accompanying the delegation to pay homage to the anti-apartheid leader, who died on Dec 5 at the age of 95. His funeral is scheduled to be held in his childhood home, Qunu village in the Eastern Cape on Dec 15 and it will be a private affair. However, the South African Government has facilitated world leaders to pay their tributes to Mandela on Dec 11 at the State Memorial Services being held at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. India was the first foreign country that he had visited after his 27-years in prison.
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