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PATIALA: Former Rajpura MLA Balwant Singh passed away on Thursday in a hospital in Chandigarh following prolonged illness. He won the assembly elections from Rajpura in 1980.In 1988, he became the state president of CITU. He had shifted his base to Chandigarh after he was appointed as state secretary of the party. He was 82 years old.His wife Charanjit Kaur had passed away in February 2018. He remained active in party activities and helped in formation of trade unions in Rajpura..