Bharatiya Janata Party legislator from Bulandshahr Sadar and party’s chief whip in Assembly, Virendra Singh Sirohi (74) passed away at a hospital in New Delhi on Monday morning.
According to his family members, the legislator was admitted to a private hospital in Delhi for treatment of a liver ailment on February 8 and he breathed his last around 3:30 am on Monday.
Sirohi was first elected as MLA in the 13th UP Assembly in 1996, then in 2007 and last in 2017. He was the chief whip of the ruling BJP in the Assembly and was also a former minister.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief over the death of the BJP MLA.
“Sirohi was a popular leader in Bulandshahr and contributed a lot for the development of the region. He was a leader with roots in the ground and worked for the uplift of the people,” the chief minister said.
Yogi later spoke to Sirohi’s son over phone and expressed his condolences to the family.
Bharatiya Janata Party’s UP chief Swatantra Dev Singh along with other party leaders, including state general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak, also expressed grief over the sudden demise of the party leader.