- Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar passed away on August 20, 2026, at the age of 80.
- He was serving a life sentence after being convicted in cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
- Sajjan Kumar was active in Delhi politics for a long time.
- He represented the Outer Delhi constituency in Parliament, having won the Lok Sabha seat three times. He was elected as a Lok Sabha MP in 1980, and subsequently in 1991 and 2004.
- While his political journey was marked by electoral success, criminal cases linked to the 1984 riots deeply impacted his public life.
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- These cases cast a serious shadow over his political career, and he was serving a prison sentence during the final phase of his life.
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