NAINITAL: Leader of Opposition in the Uttarakhand Assembly Indira Hridayesh passed away after suffering a cardiac arrest in New Delhi on Sunday morning. She was 80.
The senior Congress leader and MLA from Haldwani had attended a meeting chaired by party in-charge for Uttarakhand on June 12 and was staying at Uttarakhand Sadan.
Her son Sumit Hridayesh said that she had "collapsed" and doctors confirmed "cardiac arrest".
Indira Hridayesh had tested positive for Covid-19 in September, and had recovered in a few weeks. She had also undergone a heart surgery.
A senior Congress leader told TOI that Hridayesh had gone to Delhi along with state president Pritam Singh to "chalk out the strategy for next year's assembly elections".