Former Delhi Health Minister AK Walia died Corona virus infection continues to wreak havoc across the country, including Delhi-NCR. Meanwhile a bad news is coming from the capital Delhi and Gurugram. Dr. Ashok Kumar Walia, who was the Minister of Energy and Health in the Sheila Dixit government, died in the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital on Thursday morning. He was hit by a corona virus infection and was hospitalized for several days. As soon as the news of his death came on Thursday morning, a wave of mourning raged among the Congress leaders. At the same time, Ashish, son of Marxist Communist Party (CPM) leader Sitaram Yechury, died due to corona virus in a hospital in Gurugram.
Please tell that Dr. Ashok Kumar Walia was one of the prominent leaders of Delhi Congress and was also close to Sheila Dixit. Not only in East Delhi, but throughout Delhi, he was considered a good man with a great doctor. He was always ready to help people.
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Please tell here that Ashok Kumar Walia, who was a minister in the Sheila Dixit government, was one of the top leaders of the state Congress. His close association with Sheila Dixit was evident. He was elected every time from the first assembly of Delhi Pradesh in the year 1993, but contested and lost in 2015 from the Laxminagar assembly seat. He was then defeated in the Delhi Assembly elections in 2020 as well.
Earlier in 2017, Congress’ quarrel over ticket distribution in MCD elections reached the door of Vice President Rahul Gandhi. AK Walia was very angry about this.
A Walia had won the assembly elections 4 times in a row
Former Delhi Minister Dr. AK Walia had won four consecutive assembly elections and lost two consecutive elections, before the delimitation he won three consecutive terms from Geeta Colony seat and after delimitation one from Laxminagar Assembly seat Won the bar. At the same time, he had lost twice in a row from Laxminagar. For this reason, he had decided to contest from the old seat in the Delhi Legislative Assembly 2020.
