"My deepest condolences to the family of Shri Ram Kapse ji, our senior leader and former Lt Governor of Andaman & Nicobar on his sad demise," BJP president Amit Shah said.
Party vice president Vinay Sahasrabuddhe said, "With the sad demise of the former MP from Maharashtra, we have lost a great organiser-leader and an ideal elected representative."
Kapse belonged to the old generation of politicians for whom politics was not a full-time vocation and he was one of those who painstakingly built the strong foundation for Jan Sangh and later the Bharatiya Janata Party, he said.
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