New Delhi, April 18 -- Senior Congress leader and former Delhi MLA Jai Kishan died of a heart attack late Wednesday night. He was 66.
A prominent Dalit face in the capital, Jai Kishan won four times from the Sultanpur Majra Assembly seat in 1993, 2003, 2008 and 2013. In the 1998 polls, he fielded his wife Sushila Devi and she, too, won from the seat.
A sanitation worker before he began his political journey, Jai Kishen joined the Congress in 1980 and served in various organisational roles, including All India Congress Committee general secretary and vice-president of the party's Delhi unit. A renowned leader and social worker, Jai Kishan was again fielded from Sultanpur Majra by the Congress in the recent Delhi Assembly elections, but his...