Jag Pravesh Chandra as the Chief Executive Councillor presided over the affairs of the city for nearly a decade. When the octogenarian leader died early this year, his corpse had to wait for hours before it was cremated. Reason: There was no power at the Bela Road electric crematorium. Friends and relatives of former West Bengal Governor K V Raghunath Reddy, who died in the Capital early this year, had to go through a similar ordeal. The blackout forced mourners like former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar to wait for several hours before the corpse could be put on the pyre.
The funeral finally commenced when the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), which maintains the crematorium, arranged for a generator.

In what has almost become a rule for the electric crematoriums in the city, it is not only the living that have to bear delays, the dead too have to suffer the same.