Former Uttar Pradesh
chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party veteran Kalyan Singh, who was ailing
for some time, breathed his last on Saturday night, the Sanjay Gandhi Post
Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences said in a statement in Lucknow.
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He was 89.
Singh was admitted to
SGPGI on July 4 in the Intensive Care Unit in critical condition.
He died due to
sepsis and multi-organ failure, the hospital said in the statement.
Singh was the UP chief
minister when the Babri mosque was demolished by a mob in Ayodhya on December
6, 1992.
He later also served as the
governor of Rajasthan.