 "Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi and party leader Sheila Dikshit. Photo: PTI")
Delhi's longest-serving chief minister and senior Congress leader Sheila Dikshit passed away on Saturday at the age of 81.
She was admitted to the Escorts Hospital in Delhi a few days ago, she suffered a cardiac arrest and breathed her last around 3.55 pm.
The three-time chief minister galvanised the Congress party unit in Delhi, ruling uncontested from 1998-2013. She served as a parliamentarian from the Kannauj constituency from 1984-1989 and also served as a Union minister from 1986-1989. Dikshit represented the Gole Market assembly from 1988-2003 and the New Delhi parliamentary constituency seat in 2008.
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