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For the last two days, Virbhadra Singh was on ventilator support after his health deteriorated.
SHIMLA: Congress veteran and former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh passed away at Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital Shimla in the wee hours of Thursday. He was 87.
“Singh died at around 4am. After cardiopulmonary arrest, he was declared dead,” Dr Janak Raj Pakhretia of the hospital said.
The former chief minister was admitted to the hospital on April 30 after recovering from Covid-19. For the last two days, he was on ventilator support after his health deteriorated.
Pakhretia said that after embalming the body would be handed over to family members.
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Bhanu P Lohumi
Tribune News Service
Shimla, June 15
For the first time in the history of Himachal BJP, the party is likely to ask its MLAs and defeated candidates to submit self-assessment reports
Shimla, June 9
All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary and newly appointed co-incharge for party affairs in Himachal Sanjay Dutt today tried to gauge the organisational issues and shortcomings plaguing the party as he held personal interaction with sitting MLAs and former party legislators.
He tried to gauge the issues which could be resolved to strengthen the party. As the Assembly elections are due at the end of 2022, the Congress wants its cadre to gear up to take on the BJP.
Besides the next Assembly polls, the Congress is faced with the challenge of putting up formidable candidates for the Mandi Lok Sabha and the two Assembly segments of Fatehpur in Kangra and Jubbal Kotkhai in Shimla district. The Congress presently has 20 legislators after the demise of Fatehpur MLA Sujan Singh Pathania in February 2021.