UP Samajwadi Party leader Haji Riyaz, IAS officer Deepak Trivedi die of Covid

Lucknow/Pilibhit, April 29

Former minister Haji Riyaz Ahmad and senior IAS officer Deepak Trivedi died of Covid on Thursday, official sources said.

Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Ahmad (69) died at a hospital in Bareilly on Thursday morning, his son-in-law Arif said.

He would be laid to rest at his ancestral village Gauhar, he said.

Ahmad, a five-time MLA from Pilibhit, was a minister in the Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav governments.

Senior bureaucrat and Revenue Board Chairman Deepak Trivedi (59) also succumbed to the virus at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences on Thursday morning.

Trivedi, who was chairperson of Uttar Pradesh IAS Association, was admitted to the hospital about a fortnight ago.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has condoled the deaths.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav also condoled the demise of Haji Riyaz Ahmad, terming it a loss for the party. PTI