Veteran Congress leader and former union minister Murli Deora passed away here early Monday following a brief illness, a senior party leader said.
He was 77 and he died around 3.30 a.m.
A former mayor of Mumbai in 1977-78, and later chief of the Congress Party’s city unit for two decades, a four-time Lok Sabha MP from Mumbai South, he was a union minister for petroleum and natural gas and earlier handled communications and IT.
–IANS