22 August,2019 01:40 PM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
Gurudas Kamat death anniversary. Pic/Sachin Sawant's Twitter
Gurudas Kamat was a former Union Minister and a senior leader of the Congress Party who passed away one year ago on August 22, 2018. He suffered a cardiac arrest and was 63 years old when he died. Kamat was an advocate and he graduated from Poddar College of Commerce and Economics in Matunga.
Gurudas Kamat was a member of Parliament for five terms in the Lok Sabha. He represented the Mumbai northwest Constituency of Maharashtra between 2009-2014. He was also a Member of the Parliament from Mumbai North East constituency in 1984, 1991, 1998 and 2004.
Kamat was a powerful orator and an able organiser. He was well versed with a number of languages such as Hindi, Marathi and English.
Twitterati paid him tributes and remembered him for everything he had done.
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Gurudas Kamat played an important role in boosting Congress workers before the 2004 Lok Sabha election.
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