Former Defence Minister George Fernandes Passes Away At Age 88

NEW DELHI: George Fernandes, a former Union Defence Minister in the Vajpayee government who was elected nine times to the Lok Sabha, died on Tuesday in New Delhi. He was 88.Fernandes breathed his last at Max hospital in Delhi. Georgre Fernandes had been living with Alzheimer’s disease and his last stint was as a Rajya Sabha MP between August 2009 and July 2010. President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to express their condolences. PM Modi wrote that George Fernandes represented the best of India’s…

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