Shillong, Jan. 19: Former deputy chief minister of Meghalaya and senior NCP leader Lotsing Sangma died of kidney ailment in Guwahati yesterday.
Sangma, 49, is survived by his wife, four sons and a daughter, family sources at Tura in West Garo Hills district town said.
The NCP leader had been admitted to a private hospital in Guwahati sometime ago with kidney problems.
Besides being the deputy chief minister of the state in the E.K. Mawlong ministry in 2001, Sangma also held the crucial home and planning portfolios in the F.A. Khonglam government in 2002.
Sangma was elected to the Assembly for the first time on a Congress ticket in the 1989 byelection from the Baghmara constituency. He contested from the same seat in 1993 and 1998.
The NCP leader, who was member of the state committee at the time of death, unsuccessfully contested the February 2003 Assembly polls.
Condoling the death of Sangma, chief minister D.D. Lapang said, “The news came as a great shock.”