New Delhi: Former Union minister and senior Congress leader Shivraj Patil passed away at his home in Latur today, December 12. He was 90.

Patil had been under home care due to prolonged illness.

Patil held several important positions during his long political career, including Speaker of the Lok Sabha and various key portfolios in the Union Cabinet. He won from the Latur Lok Sabha seat seven times.

Patil was the Union home minister from 2004 to 2008 and 10th Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1991 to 1996. He was governor of Punjab and administrator of the Chandigarh Union Territory from 2010 to 2015. In the Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi cabinets in the 1980s, he had been defence minister.

The 2008 Mumbai attacks brought criticism Patil's way. He resigned in its aftermath in the same year.

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