Former Union Minister Babagouda Patil dead
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Babagouda Rudragouda Patil, farmers leader and former union minister, died in Belagavi on Friday. He was 80. He was admitted to a private hospital when he suffered fluctuations in blood pressure a week ago, his family members said.
He had represented the Belagavi Lok Sabha constituency in 1998 as a BJP nominee and served as the rural development minister in Atal Behari Vajpayee’s cabinet
Mr. Patil was at the forefront of the farmers agitation against the new farm laws. He took out a tractor rally to the Suvarna Soudha in Belagavi in protest against the union government. He gave a call to farmers to defeat the BJP that had passed `anti farmer laws’.