Maharashtra: Senior NCP leader RR Patil is dead
Earlier on Monday, doctors at Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital said NCP leader Raosaheb Ramrao Patil was critical and put on life support.
Former Maharashtra Home Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Raosaheb Ramrao Patil, better known as R R Patil, died on Monday after a long battle with various ailments including cancer. He was 57.
My condolences on the sudden and sad demise of Shri R.R. Patil, a politician par excellence. May the departed soul rest in peace.&; Arun Jaitley (@arunjaitley) February 16, 2015
Earlier on Monday, doctors at Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital said Patil was critical and put on life support. Last month, the NCP leader was treated for a heart condition for which he had undergone successful angiography at the Bombay Hospital.
My condolences and prayers for the departed soul of Shri RR Patil ji (former Home Minister of Maharashtra) @MahaBJP&; Amit Shah (@AmitShahOffice) February 16, 2015
Patil became the Home Minister of Maharashtra for the second time after the Congress-NCP alliance won the 2009 Maharashtra Assembly election. He was first elected to the Maharashtra Assembly in 1990 from Tasgaon and won several elections after that. In 2004, he became the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
State funeral would be accorded to Shri R R Patil & a day long mourning would be observed tomorrow.&; Devendra Fadnavis (@Dev_Fadnavis) February 16, 2015
Popularly known as Aaba, Patil was born on August 16, 1957 in Anjani village in Maharashtra's Sangli district. He studied at Shantiniketan College, Sangli and later did his LL.B.
R R Patil was a grass root worker, his sad demise is my personal & huge loss for Maharashtra politics. My deepest condolences to his family&; Nitin Gadkari (@nitin_gadkari) February 16, 2015