Former prime minister Chandra Shekhar died in New Delhi today after a prolonged illness. He was 80.
Chandra Shekhar breathed his last at 8:45 am at the Apollo Hospital in the capital where he was admitted for the last three months, a doctor attending on him said.
"He was suffering from multiple myloma (blood disease)," Dr Rakesh Chopra, senior consultant (oncology) told PTI.
The Lok Sabha member of Parliament from Ballia in Uttar Pradesh is survived by two sons.
The body would be kept at his official residence in New Delhi to enable people to pay last respects, his son Pankaj Singh said.
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