67-year old Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Pandurang Pundalik Fundkar died on Thursday following a cardiac arrest at Mumbai’s Somaiya Hospital.
Fundkar was the president of BJP’s Maharashtra unit between 1991 and 1996. He represented Akola parliamentary constituency three times. He was elected as a member of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha from Khamgaon in 1978 and 1980. He was also the leader of Opposition in the legislative council.
PM Narendra Modi expressed his condolences on the demise of Minister’s death.
He expressed his condolences through Twitter.
The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was elected in Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s cabinet in July 2016.
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