Rahul offers prayers at stream in Wayanad where his father's ashes were immersed

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday offered prayers for his late father Rajiv Gandhi and other ancestors with the 'bali tharpanam' ritual on the banks of Papanasini stream, where the ashes of the former prime minister were immersed nearly three decades ago. Gandhi, who is on a whirlwind two-day tour of Kerala as part of Lok Sabha poll campaign and is contesting from Wayanad besides his family bastion Amethi, took time off his hectic schedule to pay obeisance at the famed Thirunelli temple near the stream here.