Buta Singh, Indira Gandhi s right hand man, passes away
ByRadhika RamaseshanRadhika Ramaseshan / Updated: Jan 3, 2021, 10:40 IST
Congress leader and no stranger to controversies
Buta Singh had the luck of the devil. When the senior Congress leader fell from grace, it was not a fall many would have survived in the rough-and-tumble of politics, but he managed to scrape through. That was Singh, the former Union minister, a Dalit from Punjab, who always lived life on the edge. The news of his death on January 2, in Delhi’s AIIMS at 86, comes as a huge blow to a party already reeling with the loss of stalwarts like Ahmed Patel and Motilal Vora.