India’s president Droupadi Murmu will journey to London this weekend to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, the federal government in Delhi has confirmed.

The Impartial understands that prime minister Narendra Modi will due to this fact not attend the state funeral on Monday 19 September, as the 2 leaders don’t usually depart the nation on overseas visits on the similar time.

The president will as a substitute supply condolences on the funeral on behalf of the federal government of India, an announcement from the overseas ministry stated on Wednesday.

“Within the 70 years of reign of HM Queen Elizabeth II, India-UK ties have developed, flourished and strengthened immensely,” the overseas ministry stated in an announcement.

“She performed an vital function within the welfare of hundreds of thousands of individuals world wide as Head of the Commonwealth.”

India, a former British colony for 200 years, introduced a day of state mourning on 11 September as “a mark of respect” for the Queen. On Sunday, the nation noticed the day with no official leisure and nationwide flags had been flown at half-mast all through the nation, an announcement from the house ministry learn.

Ms Murmu is the newly elected fifteenth president of India, sworn in in late July after she was backed by MPs in a historic second that noticed a politician from an indigenous neighborhood taking the nation’s highest elective workplace for the primary time.

The Indian president will attend the state funeral together with US president Joe Biden and a bunch of prime ministers of Commonwealth nations – corresponding to Canada’s Justin Trudeau, New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern and Australia’s Anthony Albanese.

Different leaders who will attend the funeral embrace French president Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Italian president Sergio Mattarella, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan together with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro.

Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU, can also be anticipated to be in attendance.

Will probably be one of many largest diplomatic gatherings in a long time, with almost 500 overseas dignitaries anticipated to hitch the bereaved royal household in London.

However the British authorities has not despatched invites for the Queen’s state funeral to Russia, Belarus or Myanmar, Whitehall sources have stated.

Iran, in the meantime, has acquired an invitation from the overseas workplace however is predicted to “solely be represented at an ambassadorial degree”.

Russia was apparently shunned in accordance with the UK authorities’s overseas coverage, denouncing Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Moscow, and its closest ally Belarus was overlooked for supporting the nation in its ambitions.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky will not be anticipated to attend amid the Russian invasion of his nation.

The procession of the Queen’s coffin, which started its journey from Balmoral on the weekend, will culminate with a state funeral on Monday to pay honour to Britain’s longest serving monarch’s lifetime of service. King Charles III accepted making the day a nationwide vacation in Britain as one in every of his first acts as the brand new monarch.

The Queen will likely be laid to relaxation inside St George’s Chapel, within the grounds of Windsor Fort. She will likely be laid alongside her “power and keep” of 73 years, Prince Philip, whose coffin will transfer from the Royal Vault to the memorial chapel to hitch the Queen’s.