Veteran Dalit leader, Lok Janshakti Party founder and Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan died on Thursday at the age of 74 at a private hospital where he had recently undergone a heart operation. His son and LJP national president Chirag Paswan confirmed this by tweeting this. Paswan's body will be brought to Patna o Friday afternoon and his funeral will be performed with state honors at Digha Ghat in Patna on Saturday itself. At the same time, the Ministry of Home Affairs has said that as a condolence on the death of Union Minister Paswan, the national flag will remain half-tilted in Delhi, the capital of all the states and union territories on Friday and the flag will remain tilted on the day of his funeral