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Former PPCC chief Virendra Kataria dies at 88

NEW DELHI: Former Lieutenant-Governor of Puducherry and former Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Virendra Kataria passed away here on Tuesday evening.

Virendra Kataria. — File photo

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 5

Former Lieutenant-Governor of Puducherry and former Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Virendra Kataria passed away here on Tuesday evening.

He is survived by his son and a daughter, a senior officer in Punjab.

Kataria, 88, breathed his last at the AIIMS where he was admitted for a surgery, his family told The Tribune.

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