Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh Dies at the age of 64

Rajya Sabha MP and Ex-Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh is no more. Amar Singh, 64, was ill for a very long time & was undergoing treatment in a Singapore hospital for some months. A recent news report said he was in ICU & his family was by his side. Earlier, Singh had suffered kidney failure in 2013.

Earlier today, he had tweeted a tribute to freedom fighter & educationist Bal Gangadhar Tilak on his death anniversary & also wished Eid Al Adha to all his followers.

In Feb 2013, He had fainted at Dubai airport while on his way to Singapore for a regular medical check-up. He had been treated at a Singapore hospital for a kidney ailment a couple of years before that incident.

His Twitter profile indicates he was very active on social media despite his illness.

On March 22, Singh had posted a short video message on Twitter from the hospital bed. In the video, he made an appeal to all his followers to support PM Narendra Modi in the fight against COVID-19.

On March 2, he had posted another video message to end rumours that alleged that he was dead.

“Tiger Zinda Hai,” he had written in his short message posted along with the video.

His prominence as a politician had declined over the years ever since he floated his own political outfit after leaving the Samajwadi Party. He was once considered SP chief Mulayam Singh’s close confidante. He had recently tweeted that he won’t ever return to Samajwadi Party.

On Jan 6, 2010, Singh resigned from all positions in Samajwadi Party & was later expelled from the party.

He floated his own political outfit Rashtriya Lok Manch in 2011 & fielded candidates in UP assembly polls in 2012 without any luck. In 2014, he joined Jat leader Ajit Singh’s party, the Rashtriya Lok Dal. 

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