India, March 11 -- Gulfam Singh Yadav, who died after allegedly being poisoned by three unidentified men in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader.

According to police, 60-year-old Gulfam Singh Yadav was sitting at his farm in Daftara village under Junawai on Monday evening when three men arrived on a motorcycle and injected him with a substance before fleeing.

After the incident, Yadav was taken to Aligarh for treatment but died on the way.

So far, no formal complaint has been received from the victim's family but a police team has been deployed to investigate the case, PTI reported.

Gulfam Singh Yadav is a BJP leader and the former regional vice president of the party's western Uttar Pradesh unit.

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