Former Maharashtra Minister Madan Patil passes away

October 16, 2015 10:23 am | Updated 10:23 am IST - Sangli

Former Maharashtra Minister and senior Congress leader Madan Vishwanath Patil passed away in Mumbai in the early hours on Friday following illness.

He was 55.

Patil was recently admitted to a private hospital in Mumbai for liver transplant where he died at around 12.30 am today, his family said.

The leader was a Member of Parliament twice from Sangli Lok Sabha constituency.

He had earlier also been an MLA from Sangli Assembly seat and had served as a minister in the earlier Congress-led state government.

He was the grandson of Maharashtra’s former Chief Minister late Vasantdada Patil.

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