Senior Congress leader Gurudas Kamat passes away. (File photo: ANI)

NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Gurudas Kamat passed away in a hospital in Delhi on Wednesday, reported news agency ANI.

He was 63.

Kamat served as a Union minister in the UPA-II government. He was minister of state (MoS) in the ministry of home affairs and was in 2011 also assigned charge as MoS at the telecommunications and information technology ministry.

He was a Member of the Parliament for the Mumbai North West constituency of Maharashtra in 2009 and Mumbai North East constituency of Maharashtra in 1984, 1991, 1998 and 2004

Kamat was a commerce graduate and had a law degree from the Government Law College, Mumbai.

