Uttarakhand Finance Minister Prakash Pant, who was undergoing cancer treatment in the US, passed away on Wednesday. He was 58. Before going to the US, Pant was undergoing treatment at a hospital at Rohini in New Delhi for a long time and did not campaign for the party in the Lok Sabha elections.
In February, Pant had collapsed when he was presenting the state budget in the Assembly for the year 2019-20.