Ramesh Wanjale Dead

A famous and most popular Maharastra Navnirman Sena's activist and also MLA Ramesh Wanjale who is also known as gold man, is being shot and passed away in Jahangir hospital in Pune in the state of Maharashtra on10th June 2011. Wanjale was the only Pune MLA, who was elected from the Khadakwasala constituency in the year 2009.

“Wanjale was brought to the hospital at 8.30 pm with no recordable blood pressure and no pulse. We tried to resuscitate him by administering all emergency medical help, but could not succeed. He was declared dead at 9.50 pm,” said Prasad Mugalikar, director, medical services at Jehangir Hospital. The 45 year old MNS activist was admitted to the hospital after he had a cardiac arrest. Doctors in the hospital had tried hard to revive him but unfortunately, he had failed to respond to the treatment.

He wore nearly two kg of gold while campaigning and said he wanted transparency so that he would not be accused of making money after he became an MLA. Wanjale came into the political arena when he became the sarpanch of Ahire village. He was a Congressman when he became the deputy chairman of the Pune zilla parishad. Wanjale changed parties when he was denied a ticket to contest the assembly polls.