Congress spokesperson Rajiv Tyagi dies after heart attack

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 12

Congress spokesperson and party’s Uttar Pradesh leader Rajeev Tyagi died of cardiac arrest right after participating in a television debate on Wednesday.

Tyagi was at his home when he had a massive cardiac arrest and was rushed to a local hospital in Ghaziabad where he could not be revived.

“Rajiv Tyagi was an ideological warrior. His sudden death is a personal loss and an irreparable loss for all of us,” AICC General Secretary UP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said today in a tweet posting her picture with Tyagi.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also tweeted his condolences to the family of Tyagi saying “Congress has lost a lion today. We will forever remember Rajeev Tyagi’s love for Congress and his struggle for its ideology.”

Tyagi was 52 years old.