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Urdu poet Rahat Indori, who had tested Covid-19 positive, passes away

| @indiablooms | Aug 12, 2020, at 12:10 am

New Delhi/IBNS: Urdu poet Rahat Indori, who had tested positive for Covid-19, passed away on Tuesday.

He died after suffering a cardiac arrest at 5 pm.

Indori on Monday night informed his followers on Twitter that he had tested positive for the deadly virus.

Not just a poet, Indori was also a lyricist in a number of Bollywood films.

His poem 'Bulati Hai Magar Jaane Ka Nahi' had gone viral on TikTok and had started trending on social media in the Valentines week in 2020.

Mourning his death, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi wrote on Twitter, " ...Goodbye, Rahat Indori sir."

 

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