Former Minister and Senior Advocate Shanti Bhushan passed away on Monday after brief illness.

Shanti Bhushan has served as a law minister n the Cabinet of Morarji Desai from 1977 to 1979.

As Law Minister, he introduced the Forty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of India, which repealed many provisions of Forty-second Amendment of the Constitution passed by the Cabinet of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Bhushan joined the Bhartiya Janata Party in 1980. In 1986, he resigned from BJP after the saffron party acted against his advice over an election petition.

Late Shanti Bhushan became a founding member of the Aam Aadmi Party after its formal launch on November 26, 2012.

His death has sent shock waves across the legal fraternity, which always appreciated his endeavours in the field.

Bhushan had founded the NGO named Centre for Public interest litigation in 1980.

His son Prashant Bhushan said that this was an end of an era.

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