Former Maharashtra CM Shivajirao Patil is dead

He tested coronavirus positive in July but recovered and was discharged after testing negative. Nilangekar, senior Congress leader from Latur in Marathwada region, was the state chief minister from June 1985 to March 1986. He resigned from the post when the Bombay High Court passed strictures against him after fraud was alleged in the results of the MD examination in 1985 “at his behest” to help his daughter and her friend get through. Doctors at Pune hospital where he died said he suffered an acute renal failure with cardiac arrest.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on condoled the death of former Maharashtra chief minister Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar, saying he served the state diligently. “Shri Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar Ji was a stalwart of Maharashtra politics. He served the state diligently, especially working for the welfare of farmers and the poor,” the Prime Minister’s Office tweeted quoting Modi.

Condoling were Balasaheb Thorat, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar among others.