Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away at a private hospital in Mumbai on Sunday morning, family sources said.
Ahmed was suffering from cancer and admitted to Lilavati Hospital in suburban Bandra last week, they said.
He was 73 and is survived by wife, one son and two daughters.
Governor of Manipur since May 16, 2015, Ahmed was joined Congress from Maharashtra in 1977.
He then shifted to the north-eastern State from Jharkhand, where he was appointed Governor on August 26, 2011 when the UPA Government was in power at the Centre.
He has written an autobiography ‘Pagdandi se Shahar Tak’.
Ahmed was elected to the Maharashtra Assembly five times from the Nagpada constituency in Mumbai. He also served as a Minister in Maharashtra.
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