NEW DELHI, Sep 30: Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra, a five-term Lok Sabha MP from Delhi, passed away on Tuesday morning at the age of 93, after a brief illness. He had been undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi for the past few days.
Mr. Malhotra was the first president of the BJP’s Delhi unit. He had, under the party’s old avatar of Jan Sangh, also been elected the Chief Metropolitan Councillor of Delhi before its Statehood, in 1967, a position equivalent to that of the Chief Minister. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, on December 3, 1931, his family settled in Delhi after the Partition, and along with the late Madan Lal Khurana and the late Kidar Nath Sahni, he was one of the leading lights of the BJP’s Delhi unit. Apart from winning five Lok Sabha elections, he was also a two-term MLA from Delhi. (PTI)
