India, Dec. 15 -- A prominent leader of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Ramvilas Vedanti died at a hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa district on Monday.

Vedanti had travelled to Rewa on December 10 for a Ramkatha when his health deteriorated. He had been under treatment for two days, Ayodhya mayor Girish Pati Tripathi said.

Tripathi said Vedanti suffered a heart attack at the Rewa hospital on Sunday evening. There was an attempt to shift him to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bhopal in an air ambulance. But the aircraft could not land at Rewa due to the fog. He passed away shortly after.

Vedanti was the executive president of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Trust and had earlier be...