A prominent Indian tribal leader and a three-time chief minister of the eastern state of Jharkhand, Shibu Soren, has died at the age of 81.
He was undergoing treatment in Delhi for a kidney ailment and had been on life support after he suffered a stroke last month.
In a political career of more than 40 years, Soren co-founded the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, an influential tribal party that has been at the forefront of the creation of the tribal-dominated eastern state.
He became the chief minister of Jharkhand three times, but failed to complete any of these terms in office due to political instability in the state.
Born in 1944, Soren grew up in a small village in present-day Jharkhand at a time when the state was still a part of Bihar.
On Monday, as the news of his death broke, leaders across political parties paid tributes to the leader.
