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Senior BJP person and erstwhile Maharashtra Minister Raj K. Purohit, a salient dependable of northbound Indian communities successful Mumbai, has died pursuing an illness, sources said connected Sunday (January 18, 2025).
He was 71. Purohit breathed his past astatine a backstage infirmary successful Mumbai connected Saturday (January 17), they said. A well-known fig successful Mumbai BJP circles, helium had served arsenic the party's metropolis president and a Minister successful the Maharashtra government, and was the BJP's main whip successful the Assembly betwixt 2014 and 2019.
He was erstwhile regarded arsenic 1 of the astir influential leaders of the BJP's metropolis unit, wielding sizeable clout successful southbound Mumbai. Purohit was denied a summons successful the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly elections.
His decease has near Maharashtra's governmental and societal beingness devoid of an experienced, erudite person with heavy grassroots connections, enactment leaders said. Paying tribute, BJP nationalist wide caput Vinod Tawde said helium was pained to larn astir Purohit's demise.
"From a Mumbai municipal corporator to an MLA and a Minister successful the Maharashtra Assembly, my person Raj Purohit was a fashionable nationalist typical profoundly connected with the people," Mr. Tawde said successful a station connected X.
Purohit was regarded arsenic the biggest "messiah" of migrant tenants surviving successful Mumbai and had worked passim his beingness for their upliftment, helium noted. "His demise is an irreparable nonaccomplishment for the BJP successful Maharashtra and for maine personally. I commune to God to assistance bid to the departed psyche and spot to the bereaved household and admirers," Mr. Tawde said.
In the precocious concluded Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, Raj Purohit's lad and BJP person Akash Purohit won from ward fig 221.
The deceased leader's mortal remains volition beryllium kept for paying homage astatine Rajhans Building connected the Marine Drive present from 11 americium to 1 p.m. connected Sunday (January 18, 2026), the sources said.
