Ex-Union Minister Dalbir Singh dead

Bhopal, June 2: Former Union Minister and Congress tribal leader Dalbir Singh died early today at the Bina railway station following a hea...

Bhopal, June 2: Former Union Minister and Congress tribal leader Dalbir Singh died early today at the Bina railway station following a heart attack. He was 55.

Singh, who had served as Minister in the cabinets of Rajiv Gandhi and P V Narasimha Rao, had got down at the Bina railway station to change a train when he suffered a heart attack at about 6.30 am and died before doctors could be summoned, party sources said.

Singh, who hailed from the tribal dominated Shahdol district of the state, was first elected to the Madhya Pradesh assembly in 1972. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1980 and 1991. He was the Congress working president of the state unit of the party.

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He had contested the February 1998 Lok Sabha elections from Shahdol constituency on the Congress ticket but had lost.

Singh was, however, denied a ticket for the Lok Sabha elections held in September 1999 from Shahdol where Congress fielded party spokesman, Ajit Jogi, as its nominee.

His body was taken in a Madhya Pradesh government helicopter to his native Rajendragram village in Shahdol district and his funeral is expected to take place later today.

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