Vilasrao Deshmukh
He was a member of the Indian National Congress and originally belonged to Latur district in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra.[5] During this period, he served as the Minister of State and the Cabinet Minister and had the portfolios of the ministries of Home, General Administration, Cooperation, Public Works, Transport, Legislative Affairs, Tourism, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development Fisheries, Industry, Rural Development, Education, Technical Education, Sports and Youth Welfare.He was sworn in as Chief Minister of Maharashtra on 18 October 1999 and served until he stepped down from the post on 17 January 2003, as a result of factionalism in the state unit of the party and succeeded by Sushilkumar Shinde.[10][11] An affidavit filed in the Bombay High Court on 27 April 2012 alleged that Deshmukh might be owning two flats through proxies in the Adarsh housing society in Mumbai.[12] [additional citation(s) needed] Deshmukh founded the Manjra Charitable Trust which runs a number of colleges in Latur & Mumbai.Hints of his ailments, though kept private, included the writing of his will and a general lack of previous warmth and tiredness at the weddings of his two sons, Riteish and Dhiraj.[14] He was admitted to Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital in the first week of August 2012, where he was diagnosed with liver and kidney failure."[16] President Pranab Mukherjee paid tribute and expressed grief, as did Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who called Deshmukh "a trusted colleague and an able administrator who worked at panchayat, state and central levels with admirable dedication."Minister of State for Science and Technology Ashwani Kumar called Deshmukh a "great human being" who had an ability to connect with people and that he was "very unwell.Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan said his death was "very unfortunate to lose such a promising leader at a young age."These included Madhuri Dixit, Karan Johar, Bipasha Basu, Dia Mirza and Raveena Tandon, as well as Shah Rukh Khan who called Deshmukh a "wonderful" gentleman and said "I'm feeling very sorry.