Former minister of Uttar Pradesh and sitting MLA of Bharatiya Janata Party from Nighasan constituency in Lakhimpur Kheri district, Ram Kumar Verma, died here on Sunday after prolonged illness.
He was around 64.
The family members said that the legislator died in a private hospital.
He will be cremated in his native village in his constituency on Monday morning.
Verma was PWD Minister in 1991 and Cooperative Minister in 1997 in the BJP governments when Kalyan Singh was the Chief Minister of the state. But he was denied ministerial berth this time.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief at the sudden death of the MLA.
“We have lost a dedicated leader who served people of his constituency with dedication and honesty,” the Chief Minister said.
Governor Ram Naik also expressed condolence at the death of the ruling party legislator, saying that Verma was a popular leader and fought for the rights of the poor.
BJP state president Mahendra Nath Pandey, Assembly Speaker Hriday Narayan Dikshit and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya also expressed their condolences.