New Delhi, July 28 -- Former Uttar Pradesh minister and BJP leader Nanak Ram Bhurji died on Tuesday after falling from the seventh floor of the MLA Residence complex in Lalbagh in Lucknow as per police. He was 68.

He was serving as the State Secretary of the BJP's OBC Morcha at the time of his death.

Police rushed to the scene and took him to Civil Hospital, where doctors declared him dead on examination. According to sources, Bhurji had been undergoing treatment for depression for a long time. Police said an investigation into the incident is underway.

ADCP Central, Lucknow, Jeetendra Dubey, detailed the sequence of events.

"Nanak Ram Bhurji was injured due to falling from the seventh floor of the MLA residence. On this information, ...