Former Union minister and mature BJP pioneer Bachi Singh Rawat expired at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences on Sunday. He was 71. Rawat was admitted to this hospital Saturday after he complained of difficulty breathing.

Medical Insights of AIIMS, BS Bastia, supported his departure.

Rawat was attracted in a air travel from Haldwani and has been admitted to the emergency ward of this hospital.

Preliminary evaluations had demonstrated a disease in the lungs.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat expressed despair in his departure and cried for peace to his own spirit and strength into the family.

Bachi Singh Rawat had been a four-time MP from the Almora-Pithoragarh constituency and’d conquered former chief minister and Congress pioneer Harish Rawat thrice in successive elections.

Known near to senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, Rawat has been a Union minister of state for science and tech from the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.