Rajya Sabha MP and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh passed away in a Singapore hospital today.

He had been under treatment in Singapore for the past few months. The 64-year-old is survived by wife Pankaja and two daughters.

Singh had suffered a kidney failure in 2013, but had recovered and returned to politics in 2016.

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