Chirag Zaveri (in centre)

A 66-year-old Congress leader and former deputy mayor of Vadodara, Chirag Zaveri passed away due to a heart attack on the night of July 8 in the USA.

Zaveri, on vacation with his family, suffered a cardiac arrest. When he did not wake up from the night’s sleep, his family rushed him to the hospital immediately where doctors declared him dead.

Zaveri was a Congress leader from the Manjalpur constituency in Gujarat’s Vadodara, and served as municipal councillor, and eventually as deputy mayor.

Just two days before his death, Zaveri had shared wishes for the Jagannath Rath Yatra and posted photos with his friends and religious leaders who had met him at the Vadodara airport.