New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- DY Patil, former governor of West Bengal and a veteran Congress leader, passed away on Tuesday at his residence in Maharashtra's Kolhapur after battling a prolonged illness. He was 90.

The Padma Shri awardee, who founded DY Patil Group of educational institutions, is survived by his sons - former minister and Congress leader Satej Patil, Sanjay Patil and Ajinkya Patil.

DY Patil was born on 22 October 1935 in the present-day Kolhapur district of the then-Bombay state.

He studied at the Alphonso School in Kolhapur and was first elected to the Kolhapur Municipal Council on a Congress ticket in 1957. He continued in the position till 1962.

Patil became an MLA of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha in 1967 and served in the p...