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H. K. L. Bhagat is dead
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI:
H. K. L. Bhagat former Union Minister and a strongman of the Delhi Congress in the late Eighties, died at Apollo Hospital on Saturday after prolonged illness. He was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. His cremation will take place at the Nigambodh Ghat on Sunday.
A close associate of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, Mr. Bhagat (82), was one of the accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and indicted in the Nanavati Commission report recently. Termed the "uncrowned king of Delhi politics,'' he was a dominating force in the faction-ridden Congress in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Mr. Bhagat is survived by wife Asha and three children. His son Deepak Bhagat is a general secretary of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee. The body will be kept at the Talkatora Road office of the party on Sunday to enable people to pay their last respect. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and MP Sajjan Kumar condoled the death.
Mr. Bhagat, who ruled the roost for almost one and a half decades, functioned as the DPCC chief on three different occasions. His political downfall started after the 1993 Assembly polls in Delhi when the BJP swept to power. Later he lost the Lok Sabha polls.
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