An ashes ceremony was held yesterday for the late Pandit Prakash Gossai at the De Hoop Mandir, Mahaica.

Part of the gathering. (GINA photo)

According to the Government Information Agency, the ceremony was attended by President Bharrat Jagdeo.

Pandit Gossai succumbed to a heart condition in June after he was taken to the US. He was cremated in New York and in accordance with his wishes his ashes were yesterday dispersed in the Mahaica River.

He was born in Handsome Tree, Mahaica

President Bharrat Jagdeo with the children of the late Pandit Prakash Gossai, Arun and Pratiksha Gossai. (GINA photo)

Creek, East Coast Demerara, on April 25, 1953.  He was a special assistant to the President at the time of his death and a popular Hindu priest.