Lucknow, May 14 -- The mortal remains of the veteran journalist and president of the Indian Federation of Working Journalists, K Vikram Rao, were consigned to the flames with state honours at Bhainsakund Cremation Ground in Lucknow on Tuesday, a day after he passed away. He was 87. Bihar's governor Arif Mohammad Khan, UP Governor Anandiben Pate, dignitaries, politicians, state government officers, colleagues, family and friends paid their last respects to Rao before the cremation. Earlier, Rao's body was placed at the UP Press Club for people to pay tributes where his wife, Sudha Rao, daughter Vinita Rao, and the younger son Vishwa Dev Rao were present. Sudev Rao, the elder son of K Vikram Rao lit the funeral pyre at the cremation ground. UP Working Journalists' Union president Haseeb Siddiqui, UP Press Club president Ravindra Kumar Singh, UP Working Journalists' Union's Lucknow Division president Shiv Sharan Singh, UP Accredited Journalists' Committee secretary Bharat Singh paid tributes on the behalf of various journalist organisations. Apart from his long career as a journalist, columnist, K Vikram Rao had been a prominent voice for press freedom, better wages and working conditions for working journalists. Those who expressed condolences on Tuesday included UP ministers Suresh Khanna, Nand Gopal Nandi and Nitin Agrawal. Trade union leader Umashankar Mishra, Vidhan Parishad member Pawan Singh Chauhan, former minister Rajendra Chaudhary were also among those who paid their tributes....