Kathmandu, Aug 24: Nepali Congress President and former Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, has paid tribute to NC leader late Rajaram Karki. Karki, NC’s former central committee member and former member of Bagmati Province Assembly, died on Wednesday evening in course of treatment at Bir Hospital. His body was kept at NC party office, Sanepa, from 9:00 am to 11:30 am today for paying of last respects to him. In a condolence assembly, President Deuba draped the body of late Karki with a party flag. Vice-President and Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Dhanraj Gurung, General-Secretaries Gagan Kumar Thapa and Bishwo Prakash Sharna, Foreign Minister NP Saud, leader Gopalman Shrestha, central committee members, district presidents, leaders and cadres were present in the condolence assembly. Karki, the resident of Neelkantha municipality of Dhading, is survived by his two spouses, four sons and a daughter. His final rites would be performed at Pashupati Aryaghat today itself.