A legislator from India’s ruling party died almost three years after he was severely injured in a mob assault at the outset of ethnic violence in the northeastern state of Manipur. He was 61.
Pu Vungzagin Valte, a legislator from the Thanlon constituency, passed away at 2.19pm on Saturday at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram in Haryana, where he had been receiving intensive medical care.