- Founder member of the Samajwadi Party and former UP minister Bhagwati Singh passed away at his residence in Lucknow. He was 89.
- A SP member of the Rajya Sabha from July 2004 to 2010, Bhagwati Singh joined the socialist movement following inspiration from the socialist ideologue Ram Manohar Lohia.
- The last rites of Singh will not be done as he had pledged to donate his body to the King George Medical University.
