Senior NCP leader and former
Deputy CM of Maharashtra RR Patil died today in Mumbai's Lilavati hospital.
Patil, 57, was being treated for cancer. The six times MLA from Tasgaon, Sangli
has left his mother, wife, and two daughters behind.
One of the longest serving Home
Ministers of the state, Mr Patil was also one of the most popular and powerful
leaders of the Congress-led alliance that ruled the Maharashtra until last
year.
One NCP source has told the media
that his last rites will be carried out tomorrow in his ancestral village of
Anjani at 1 PM.
Patil was very close to NCP chief
Sharad Pawar, and was seen as leader who had a mass appeal in Maharashtra state.
He first became an MLA in 1990,
and after that he never looked back. Patil was made the Rural Development
minister of the state in 1999 in the Congress-NCP government. He was handed over the Home Ministry in 2003
after Deputy CM Chagan Bhujbal, who also held the Home portfolio with him,
resigned following the allegations of his involvement in the infamous Telgi
scam. Patil became the Deputy CM in 2004.
Though he had to step down from
the post of Home Minister because of his controversial remark - Small incidents
do happen in big cities- over the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai; he was once
again made the Home Minister of the state in 2009 after the alliance won the
assembly elections.
Popularly known as 'Aaba', Patil
took the controversial decision to ban dance bars in Mumbai as the Home
Minister; the decision was struck down by the Supreme Court afterwards.
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