Ex-Kerala, Bihar Guv Gavai dies

R S Gavai, veteran Dalit leader and former Governor of Kerala and Bihar, died this afternoon after a prolonged illness at a private hospital here. He was 86 and survived by wife Kamal and two sons.

His elder son Justice Bhushan Gavai is a Bombay High Court judge of Nagpur Bench and younger son Rajendra is leader of Republican Party of India (Gavai faction).

The body was taken to Justice <g data-gr-id="15">Gavai's</g> residence in the city and later kept at Deekshabhoomi, the historic place where B R Ambedkar embraced Buddhism in 1956, for the public to pay the last respects, his family said.