Bengaluru: Veteran Congress leader and former Union Minister M.V. Rajasekharan passed away at a hospital in Bengaluru today after prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 91.
The Congress leader was ailing from old-age related diseases. He is survived by his wife Girija Rajasekharan, two sons and two daughters. He had served as the Union Minister of State for Planning and Statistics in the Manmohan Singh Government in 2004. Rajasekharan debuted in electoral politics in 1967, winning the Kanakapura Parliamentary Constituency.
