Congress leader Deepak Babaria dies at 75 after prolonged illness

Senior Congress leader Deepak Babaria died at the age of 75 in an Ahmedabad hospital after a long illness.
He was the party’s general secretary in charge of Haryana and Delhi, and a close aide of Rahul Gandhi.
Babaria led the Congress in Madhya Pradesh when it won the 2018 election and formed the government.
Gandhi called his death an irreplaceable loss, with Babaria in the party since the 1970s but never contesting a poll.

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