Former state minister Sanjay Deotale no more

CHANDRAPUR: Former state environment and cultural affair minister, Sanjay Deotale (58), died while undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at a private hospital in Nagpur on Sunday. Deotale had tested positive for the novel coronavirus a few days back. It is learnt, he died after suffering a heart attack while undergoing the treatment.
The four-time Congress MLA from Warora was a cabinet minister in the Congress-NCP government in the state.In 2014, he joined BJP after Congress denied him the assembly election ticket following his defeat in the Lok Sabha election held the same year.
Contesting on a BJP ticket, he lost the assembly election to Shiv Sena’s Balu Dhanorkar. He later joined Shiv Sena in 2019 and lost to Dhanorkar’s wife, Pratibha, in the assembly election.
Political leaders from the region paid homage to Deotale.