The MP from Dadar & Nagar Haveli, Mohan S. Delkar found dead

Mumbai, Feb 22 The MP from the Union Territory of Dadar & Nagar Haveli, Mohan S. Delkar was found dead in a Mumbai hotel room on Monday morning, official sources said.

The leader of the Bharatiya Navshakti Party, Delkar, 58, was a farmer and the preliminary cause of death is suspected to be suicide, though police remain tight-lipped.

Police are investigating when and why he arrived in the city and checked into the south Mumbai hotel where his body was recovered this morning.

A former Congress leader, Delkar was representing the Union Territory of Dadar & Nagar Haveli, adjoining Maharashtra-Gujarat, in the Lok Sabha since 2019.

His body has been sent for a autopsy and further details are awaited, the sources said.