Former NC MP Mohammad Shafi Bhat dead

October 12, 2016 17:23

Senior National Conference leader and former MP Mohammad Shafi Bhat died at his residence here today after prolonged illness, officials said.

Bhat was 71 and had been suffering from illness for the past few years.

He breathed his last at his Tulsibagh official residence this morning and he was later laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in Rajbagh locality of uptown Srinagar, the officials said.

A law graduate, Bhat joined National Conference decades ago and got elected to the Lok Sabha on the party ticket from Srinagar parliamentary constituency in 1989.

Bhat represented Amirakadal Assembly constituency of Srinagar on National Conference ticket in 1996.

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