Former RS MP, senior BJP leader Balbir Punj passes away

Former Rajya Sabha MP, writer and elder BJP person Balbir Punj, 76, passed distant connected Saturday (April 18, 2026) evening aft suffering unwellness for immoderate time.

Mr. Punj, a erstwhile vice president of the BJP and associated with the RSS from a young age, had a agelong vocation successful nationalist beingness — successful authorities and argumentation circles, and successful the media. He began his vocation arsenic a writer successful 1971 with the paper The Motherland, aboriginal serving for 2 decades astatine the Financial Express, and the arsenic enforcement exertion of The Observer of Business and Politics from May 1996 to March 2000.