Kalyan Singh, BJP Leader, Former UP Chief Minister, Dies at 89

Lucknow: Kalyan Singh, a senior BJP leader, and Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister died today in Lucknow.

Kalyan Singh, 89, had been undergoing treatment in the intensive care unit of the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and died due to sepsis and multi-organ failure.

Mr. Singh, a two-time Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from June 1991 to December 1992 and September 1997 to November 1999. His first term as Chief Minister is remembered for the demolition of the long-disputed Babri mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.

Mr. Singh also served as Governor of Rajasthan between 2014 and 2019.

Mr. Singh resigned as Chief Minister immediately following the demolition and also President Shankar Dayal Sharma also dismissed the Uttar Pradesh government on the same day of Babri Masjid demolition.

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