Former Union minister Dilip Gandhi dies, days after testing positive for coronavirus

Mumbai: BJP leader and former Union minister Dilip Gandhi died at a hospital in New Delhi on Wednesday, family sources said. He was 69. Gandhi had served as the Minister of State for Shipping in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led central government. He recently tested positive for coronavirus and was undergoing treatment for multiple ailments, the sources said. The BJP leader, who started his career as a corporator in the late 1980s, had won the Lok Sabha elections three times since 1999 from Ahmednagar in Maharashtra. He was denied ticket in the 2019 general polls.