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Leading hotelier Lalit Suri dies in London

Lalit Suri

LONDON: Leading hotelier and Rajya Sabha member Lalit Suri died here early on Tuesday morning following a massive heart attack. Sixty-year-old Suri, chairman and managing director of Bharat Hotel group, is survived by his wife Jyotsna and three sons and a daughter.

An automobile engineer, Suri, who was born in Rawalpindi in Pakistan on April 15, 1947, was hale and hearty on Monday evening and had attended a reception hosted by Indian High Commissioner Kamalesh Sharma in honour of visiting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Family sources said he suffered a massive heart attack and was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead. His wife Jyotsana and some other family members were with him then.

Cremation tomorrow

The family decided to have the cremation on Thursday instead of Wednesday as it happened to be his wedding anniversary.

Suri, who became Rajya Sabha member as an independent from Uttar Pradesh in 2002, was here as part of the FICCI delegation for the India-UK Investment Summit to be addressed by the Prime Minister today.

He was a diabetic and he had suffered a heart attack in the past, the family said.

Suri and Sunil Mittal, Chairman of the India-Britain Partnership Network, were among the last few to meet the Prime Minister at the High Commission reception. — PTI

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