New Delhi, August 22: Gurudas Kamat, Former MoS and Mumbai Congress leader, breathed his last in Primus Hospital in New Delhi's Chanakyapuri on Wednesday. Reports inform that the veteran leader died of heart attack. Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala took to Twitter and said, "Shocked and deeply anguished to learn about the sudden demise of Senior Congress Leader Sh Gurudas Kamat ji. No words are enough to describe the sense of loss. My deepest condolences to his family, friends and followers. I pray for the departed soul".

Meanwhile, Satyajeet Tambe Patil, Vice-President, Maharashtra Youth Congress took to Twitter and stated that Kamat's sudden demise was his personal loss. "Shocked ... My leader Gurudas Kamat is no more. It is my personal loss as well as unrepairable loss of Congress party", Patil tweeted.

The senior Congress leader was an advocate by profession was a commerce graduate from Mumbai's R.A. Podar College. 63-year old Kamat 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.  Kamat served as the Minister of State for Home Affairs with an additional charge of Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India during 2009 to 2011.

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.

In 2014, he lost the Lok Sabha Election. In 2017, Kamat resigned from all positions that he held at the Indian National Congress. Despite his insistence on resignation the Party continues to acknowledge him as the General Secretary of AICC.

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