Longest serving Maharashtra MLA passes away at 94
Kolhapur:31.07.2021
Ganpatrao Deshmukh, the longest serving MLA in Maharashtra, passed away on Friday. He was 94.
Deshmukh, fondly known as 'Aba,' was admitted to a private hospital in Solapur a few days ago for gallstones treatment. He is survived by two sons, one of them is active in politics.
Deshmukh contested from Sangola first in 1962 and won 11 times, successively.
He was minister of state twice during the Sharad Pawar-led Progressive Democractic Front government in 1978, and in 1999 when the newly formed Nationalist Congress Party and Congress came into power.
His party Shetkari Kamgar Paksha (Peasants and Workers Party) had supported the government. TNN
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