Former BJP president and the first Dalit to head the party, Bangaru Laxman, died in Hyderabad on Saturday. He was 74.
Laxman, who had been unwell for a long time, passed away in Hyderabad’s Yashoda Hospital.
Bangaru Laxman was president of the BJP between 2000 and 2001 and Union Minister of State for Railways between 1999 and 2000.