Congress MP Rajiv Satav died on Sunday, days after recovering from COVID-19, reported PTI. The 46-year-old leader had tested positive for the disease on April 22 and was on ventilator support at a Pune hospital. 

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Satav was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2014 from the Hingoli seat in Maharashtra. He didn’t contest the 2019 general election, but his party got him elected to the Rajya Sabha, of which he was a member at the time of his death. He was among the eight MPs who were suspended last year over unruly behaviour during the discussion on the Centre’s contentious farm laws. 

Satav was Congress’ general secretary and was in charge of the party’s affairs in Gujarat. 

The son of Maharashtra’s former minister Rajani Satav, he was earlier the president of his Congress’ youth wing. 

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Although Satav had recovered from COVID-19, he was later diagnosed with a new viral infection and was in a critical condition.