Vishwanath Pratap Singh, the seventh Prime Minister of India, died in 2008 at the age of 77.
The 77-year-old statesman, who had been suffering blood cancer and renal failure for more than 17 years, died in the city's Apollo Hospital, where he was being treated. Singh died on November 27, 2008, at Apollo Hospital in Delhi, following a protracted battle with multiple myeloma and renal failure. On November 29, 2008, he was cremated in Allahabad on the banks of the Ganges, with his son Ajeya Singh lighting the cremation pyre.
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