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Former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral, who headed a rickety coalition government in the late 1990s, died on Friday after a brief illness.
Gujral, 92, breathed his last at 3.27 pm in a private hospital in Gurgaon after a multi-organ failure. He was admitted to the hospital on November 19 with a lung infection, family sources said.
The former prime minister, who was ventilator support, had been unwell for sometime. He was on dialysis for over a year and suffered a serious chest infection some days ago.
He will be cremated in nearby Delhi on Saturday.
Gujral, who migrated from Pakistan after partition, rose to become the prime minister with a big slice of luck after he came up through the ranks -- starting as vice president in the New Delhi Municipal Corporation in the '50s to later become a Union minister and then India's ambassador to the USSR.
Gujral, an intellectual who propounded the 'Gujral Doctrine' of five principles for maintaining good neighbourly relations, left the Congress to join the Janata Dal in late 1980s.
RIP.
Gujral, 92, breathed his last at 3.27 pm in a private hospital in Gurgaon after a multi-organ failure. He was admitted to the hospital on November 19 with a lung infection, family sources said.
The former prime minister, who was ventilator support, had been unwell for sometime. He was on dialysis for over a year and suffered a serious chest infection some days ago.
He will be cremated in nearby Delhi on Saturday.
Gujral, who migrated from Pakistan after partition, rose to become the prime minister with a big slice of luck after he came up through the ranks -- starting as vice president in the New Delhi Municipal Corporation in the '50s to later become a Union minister and then India's ambassador to the USSR.
Gujral, an intellectual who propounded the 'Gujral Doctrine' of five principles for maintaining good neighbourly relations, left the Congress to join the Janata Dal in late 1980s.
RIP.
