BJP leader and former legislator from Uttar Pradesh Samarpal Singh died in a road accident in Meerut.
The accident occurred near Chota Hassanpur in Meerut on Monday morning, when his car rammed into a truck, killing 54-year-old Samarpal on the spot, police said.
Samarpal was elected from lok Dal ticket from Barnawa seat in Meerut in 2002 Assembly elections.He switched over to BJP during the last Assembly elections and contested from Shivalkhas Assembly seat but lost. He had been a two-time MlA and MlC and entered politics as a student leader from lucknow University as Students’ union president.
Uttar Pradesh BJP spokesperson Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that with his death the party has “lost a great leader, who always stood against system in the interest of common man.