In Nepal, the last rites of former Prime Minister and veteran Nepali Congress leader Krishna Prasad Bhattarai will be performed on Sunday in Kathmandu. His body was taken to his Ashram in Bandegaun, Lalitpur after midnight. Hundreds of party activists and leaders of political parties visited the Ashram to offer their last respect. Nepali Congress announced 13-day mourning. The party also decided to keep Bhattarai's body at Rangashala, for the public to pay homageto the departed leader from 10 am to 12 tomorrow. Bhattarai died on Friday at a hospital Kathmandu. He had been undergoing treatment for about three weeks for respiratory problems, and various other ailments.Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, the last surviving founder-member of Nepali Congress was in his league of his own. He spent much of his life in the struggle for democracy, including around 14 years in jail. One of the Founding member of the Nepali Congress ,he began his political career as the central member of the Nepali Rastriya Congress in 1947 which was later amalgamated into Nepali Congress in 1950.Bhattarai was born in Benaras, 1924 and received a Bachelor’s degree from Benares Hindu University. He was also the first president of the Nepal Journalists’ Association. He had published a memoir of political history entitled ‘Mero Ma’ on his 87th birthday on January 1 this year.