Chandigarh, May 29 -- Veteran Akali leader and former Union minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa,89, died Wednesday evening following age-related health issues at a private hospital in Mohali.According to a statement by the hospital, Dhindsa was admitted on Tuesday in a critical condition. He was suffering from severe pneumonia and cardiac complications, compounded by age-related health issues.
Dhindsa's son Parminder Singh Dhindsa was the finance minister in the erstwhile Akali government.Sukhdev Dhindsa became Shiromani Akali Dal Lok Sabha MP from Sangrur in 2004. He was the Union minister of sports, chemicals and fertilizers in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.Dhindsa was a Rajya Sabha MP from 1998 to 2004 and from 2010 to 2022.The Akali s...