Senior Congress leader Gurudas Kamat dies aged 63, tributes pour in

Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Gurudas Kamat died at a private hospital in New Delhi on Wednesday, Mumbai party officials said. He was 63.

Kamat also served as the former Mumbai Congress President.

Senior Congress leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala, Ashok Gehlot and other politicians have been quick to pay tributes to the former Union Minister on Twitter

An advocate by profession, Kamat was a commerce graduate from RA Podar College, Mumbai and has a law degree from the Government Law College, Mumbai.

He was a Member of the Parliament for the Mumbai North West constituency of Maharashtra in 2009 and Mumbai North East constituency of Maharashtra in 1984, 1991, 1998 and 2004. He served as the Minister of State for Home Affairs with additional charge of Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India during 2009 to 2011.

In July 2011, he resigned as minister. In 2013, Kamat was appointed General Secretary All India Congress Committee and given charge of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu and was also appointed as a member of the Congress Working Committee, the highest decision making body of the Indian National Congress.