Jaywantiben Mehta, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Union Minister passed away early on Monday at her residence following a brief illness.
She was 78 and had served as a Minister in the Cabinet of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
A housewife-turned-politician, Mehta breathed her last around 1.30 a.m. on Monday and the last rites are scheduled this evening at Shivaji Park crematorium, said a party official.
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Around six years, she had penned and released her multi-lingual autobiography, ‘Marching With Time’, detailing her life’s journey from a middle-class home-maker to a municipal corporator to parliamentarian and then a Union Minister.
Top leaders from across the political spectrum on Monday expressed grief over the demise of Mehta.