Muzaffarnagar (UP), Dec 9 (PTI) Former Uttar Pradesh minister Laxman Singh has died at his home in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh after a prolonged illness, family sources said.

He was 86.

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Singh was elected MLA from the Khatoli Assembly Constituency on a Bharatiya Kranti Dal ticket in 1974.

He was elected again from the same seat in 1977 as a Janata Party candidate and appointed minister in the Ram Naresh Yadav-led government in Uttar Pradesh.

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Singh, who is survived by his three sons, was a lawyer.

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