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Former Uttar Pradesh CM Kalyan Singh passes away

Last updated on: August 21, 2021 22:46 IST

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party veteran Kalyan Singh, who was ailing for some time, breathed his last on Saturday night, the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences said in a statement in Lucknow.

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He was 89.

Singh was admitted to SGPGI on July 4 in the Intensive Care Unit in critical condition.

 

He died due to sepsis and multi-organ failure, the hospital said in the statement.

Singh was the UP chief minister when the Babri mosque was demolished by a mob in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.

He later also served as the governor of Rajasthan.

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