Jammu: Shoukat Ganai, 60, the newly elected councillor from Bhaderwah tehsil of Doda district died of cardiac arrest in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Thursday.
Mr Ganai, who was recently elected as an independent in Urban Local Bodies polls of Municipal Committee Bhaderwah, on Wednesday night complaint of chest pain at his residence after which he was rushed to the sub district hospital where he was declared ‘dead’.
Police sources said that he was elected from Ward No 6, Haveli Mohalla of Bhaderwah.
His wife is also a district president of PDP.
This post was published on December 20, 2018