New Delhi, Jan 30: Senior BJP MP from Maharashtra Chintaman Wanga passed away here Tuesday, said doctors at Ram Manohar Lohia hospital. He was 67.
The presentation of the Union Budget February 1 is unlikely to be affected by Wanga’s death, sources in the parliamentary affairs ministry said.
An obituary reference would be read out by the speaker February 1 when the House meets. There are no sittings of Parliament Tuesday and Wednesday.
Last year, the government went ahead with the budget presentation despite the demise of former Union minister and IUML leader E Ahamed, who had collapsed during the President’s address to the joint sitting of the two Houses. The House did not meet the next day as a mark of respect.
Wanga, a three-time MP, was brought dead to the hospital around 11.15 am after collapsing in his Ferozeshah Road residence here.
“He was brought to RML hospital around 11.15 am. We tried to resuscitate him for 30 minutes but he could not be revived. He was declared brought dead at around 11.45 am,” the hospital’s medical superintendent Dr VK Tiwary said.
The cause of the death is being investigated, sources added.
Wanaga, born June 1, 1950, was elected to the Lok Sabha from Palghar in Maharashtra. He was a member of the 11th and the 13th Lok Sabha as well. An advocate by profession, he was the Thane district president of the BJP. He was a member of the parliamentary standing committee on rural development and the committee on welfare of SCs and STs. (PTI)
