Nagpur, Aug 4 (PTI)RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday expressed grief over the death of senior Sangh pracharak from Uttar Pradesh, Omprakashji.

The Sangh veteran breathed his last in the King George Medical College in Lucknow early this morning, where he was undergoing treatment for a communicable disease, a Sangh functionary said here.

"Omprakashji played an important role in expansion of Sangh in Uttar Pradesh. He was very simple and very pleasing personality," Bhagwat tweeted.

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