Aizawl, July 22 -- Sitting Mizo National Front (MNF) legislator from Mizoram's Dampa assembly constituency, Lalrintluanga Sailo, passed away at a hospital in Delhi on Monday. He was 65.

Family sources said the MNF leader died of complications from multiple ailments, including scrub typhus, around 9 pm on Monday.

The family flew him to Delhi on June 29 after he developed a fever, and doctors at Max Superspeciality Hospital began his treatment, they said.

Although his condition initially improved, it worsened on Sunday, and doctors placed him on ventilator support, they added. The authorities will bring his body to Aizawl on Tuesday.

Born in 1960, Sailo joined the MNF and went underground when the party launched its secessionist movemen...