GUWAHATI: Assam’s legendary singer-composer Zubeen Garg was cremated with full State honours at Kamarkuchi village on the outskirts of Guwahati on Tuesday.

His mortal remains, draped in Assamese gamosa, were taken in a flower-decked ambulance to the cremation site from the Arjun Bhogeswar Baruah Sports Complex in Guwahati.

Garg’s octogenarian father, wife Garima, and other family members and relatives accompanied him during his final journey. Thousands of fans followed the ambulance.

Earlier, lakhs of people from all over Assam and beyond paid their last respects to him at Sarusajai Stadium in the city on Sunday and Monday.

At Kamarkuchi, fans kept chanting “Jai Zubeen Da” in reverence and sang one of his most popular songs “Mayabini.” Incidentally, Garg had said multiple times that

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