New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and former Union minister L P Shahi died early on Saturday at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. He was 98.
Shahi, who hailed from Bihar, was a freedom fighter and a former CWC member. He was first elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1980 and became an MP from Muzaffarpur in Bihar in 1984.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi expressed grief over the death of Shahi and conveyed his condolence to the bereaved family. "The loss of L P Shahi, freedom fighter, former Union Minister and CWC Member will be felt by all of us in the Congress Party. My thoughts and prayers are the family. May his soul rest in peace," he tweeted.
He also condoled the death of another Congress leader, Shantaram Naik, from heart attack in Goa at the age of 72.