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Congress veteran Ahmed Patel dies at 71 after multiple-organ failure

In a statement on Twitter, his son Faisal Patel said that Ahmed Patel passed away at 3:30 am on November 25

Congress leader Ahmed Patel after casting vote for the Rajya Sabha election at the Secretariat in Gandhinagar on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)
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Congress leader Ahmed Patel. (Photo: PTI)

BS Web Team New Delhi
Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel passed away at a hospital in New Delhi in the early hours of Wednesday. The announcement of his demise was made by his son Faisal Patel.

In a statement on Twitter, his son Faisal Patel said that Ahmed Patel passed away at 3:30 am on November 25. "After testing positive for Covid-19 around a month back, his health worsened further due to multiple organ failures," he said.

The veteran Congress leader had announced that he had contracted the virus on October 1, after which he was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the
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