Former Union minister and senior Congress leader Gurudas Kamat died on Wednesday morning at a hospital in New Delhi. He was 63. The former Union minister died at a hospital in Delhi, where he was admitted early on Wednesday. He suffered a cardiac arrest.

Gurudas Kamat was a Member of Parliament for the Mumbai North-West constituency in 2009 and the Mumbai North East constituency in 1984, 1991, 1998 and 2004. He was Union Minister of State for Home Affairs with an additional charge of the Communications and Information Technology ministry from 2009 to 2011. In July 2011, he resigned as the minister.