Senior Samajwadi Party leader and socialist thinker Bhagwati Singh died here on Sunday morning. He was 88.
The family members said that Bhagwati Singh, a former UP minister and Rajya Sabha member; breathed his last at his residence on the campus of Degree College at Bakshi ka Talab on Lucknow-Sitapur road following a massive heart attack in the early hours of Sunday.
As Bhagwati Singh had donated his body to the King George's Medical University, there will be no cremation.
A disciple of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia and Raj Narain, the departed leader became MLA for the first time from Mahona assembly constituency in Lucknow in 1977. Later, he was elected to the Vidhan Sabha in 1985 and became a minister in 1990 in the Mulayam Singh Yadav ministry. He continued to become legislator till 2003 and in 2004 he was elected to the Rajya Sabha.
He was behind the development of Chandrika Devi temple in Lucknow.
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has expressed grief over the death of the socialist thinker and leader.