 Then along N. D. Tiwari and Arjun Singh, he from All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) but returned to Indian National Congress after Sonia Gandhi took over as congress President.He died on 28 September 2017, at a hospital in Gurgaon on the outskirts of Delhi.He was living in Gurgaon, Haryana with his family, and was survived by three sons and two daughters.