Senior Samajwadi Party leader and two times MP Shyama Charan Gupta passed away late Friday night.
A businessman, Shyama Charan Gupta was elected MP from Banda on SP ticket, Later he became a BJP MP from Allahabad.
Gupta was admitted to a private hospital in New Delhi after he tested positive for coronavirus infection on March 31and succumbed to the virus. He was 76 and is survived by two sons and a daughter.
Family members said he breathed his last in the hospital at around 11:30 pm on Friday night.
Initially he was admitted to the Covid ward of Swarooprani Hospital in Prayagraj but when his health deteriorated he was shifted to the hospital in Delhi.
The wife of the former MP is also coronavirus positive and is in home quarantine here.
Gupta won the Lok Sabha polls for the first time in 2004 from Banda constituency on SP ticket and later won the Allahabad parliamentary seat on BJP symbol in 2014. He was also the mayor of Allahabad in 1989.
SP president Akhilesh Yadav and SP leader and Rajya Sabha member Reoti Raman Singh expressed grief at the death of the former MP.
Senior SP leader Shyama Charan Gupta passes away
Sunday, 11 April 2021 | PNS
| Lucknow
Senior SP leader Shyama Charan Gupta passes away
Sunday, 11 April 2021 | PNS | Lucknow
