with PTI inputs

New Delhi, Jul 8: Former prime minister Chandra Shekhar died at 0845 hours IST on Sunday, said a doctor of the Apollo Hospital to PTI.

He had been admitted to the hospital, reportedly with symptoms of bone cancer.

"He was suffering from multiple myloma," Dr Rakesh Chopra, senior consultant, oncology told PTI. Shekhar is survived by two sons.

Shekhar was Prime Minister from November 10, 1990 to June 21, 1991. He was a Lok Sabha member from Ballia in Uttar Pradesh and chief of the Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya).

The body would be kept at his official residence in Delhi here to enable people to pay. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condoled Shekhar’s death, calling him a truly secular nationalist who was committed to people’s welfare and national development.

Being a former exectutive head of governent he is likely to be cremated on the banks of river Jamuna, where other former prime ministers were cremated, unless the family decides otherwise.

During the mid-1960's and later, Chandra Shekhar was known as being part of 'Young Turks' within the undivided Congress party. During the infamous Emergency, he fell out with then-PM Indira Gandhi and post-1977 was part of the Janata Party-led government.