Ruling BJP legislator from Amapur Assembly seat (Kasganj) Devendra Pratap Singh died following a massive heart attack on Monday morning. He was 59. As per his family members, Singh was preparing to leave for his assembly constituency from his house around 7 am on Monday when he complained of chest pain.
He was rushed to Etah District Hospital where he was pronounced dead upon arrival. Upon getting information about the BJP MLA’s demise, several party leaders rushed to his residence to pay homage to him. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath spoke to the bereaved family over phone and expressed condolences. Singh is the sixth BJP MLA to have died in the recent past. Five other legislators, including a state minister, have succumbed to corona infection.
The five MLAs who died during the ongoing Covid wave were Vijay Kashyap, Dal Bahadur Kori, Kesar Singh Gangwar, Ramesh Diwakar and Suresh Kumar Srivastava. Kashyap was the State Minister for Revenue and Flood Control.In the first wave of Covid last year, two UP ministers & BJP MLAs — Chetan Chauhan and Kamla Rani Varun — had died of the deadly viral infection. Besides, three other legislators, two of BJP and one of SP, had died in the first wave last year.