India, July 19 -- Sitting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA and former minister Jennifer Monserrate passed away on Sunday after a prolonged illness, her family said. She was 56.

Monserrate, who was the wife of revenue minister Atanasio "Babush" Monserrate was first elected on a Congress ticket in the Taleigao assembly constituency on the outskirts of the state capital Panaji alongside her husband who stood from the neighbouring Santa Cruz constituency.

The couple moved to the BJP in 2019 as part of a group of ten Congress legislators who made the switch and she was inducted in the cabinet as Minister for IT and Revenue shortly after.

"Deeply pained by the sad demise of Smt. Jennifer Monserrate ji, MLA of Taleigao and former Cabinet Mini...