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Senior Congress leader and MP of Rajya Sabha Murli Deora passed away this morning at 3:30 in Mumbai hospital due to a prolonged illness. He was suffering from cancer and was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai.
The former union minister was 77 and is survived by his wife and two sons. Party workers would be paying their last respects to the leader at Mumbai Congress office, where his mortal remains would be kept from 12 noon to 2.00pm. According to family sources, his last rites would be performed at Chandanwadi Crematorium later in the day.
Deora, who held several important portfolios during his decades-long career, first contested the civic elections in Mumbai in 1975. An economics graduate, Deora was mayor of Mumbai from 1977 to 1978 and was later elected to the Lok Sabha four times from Mumbai South, a seat later held by his son, Milind, who is also a former MP and ex-Union minister. Currently, he was serving his third term as a Rajya Sabha MP.
He held the portfolio of Petroleum and Natural Gas during the UPA-1 regime. The Congress veteran had also served as the Mumbai Congress president for 22 years. He joined the Union Cabinet in 2006, shortly before he turned 70 and led oil diplomacy in Myanmar, Algeria and Egypt, and held talks with ministers from Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia and Comoros. Deora also hosted the first India-Africa Hydrocarbon Conference and Exhibition in November 2007. In July 2011, Deora became minister of State for Communications and Information Technology.
With inputs from PTI
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