Nashik: Former Maharashtra health minister and Senior BJP leader Dr Daulatrao Aher died in Mumbai on Tuesday following prolonged illness. He was 74.

An ENT surgeon, Aher passed away at around 3 am at his residence here, his younger brother Dr Balasaheb Aher said. Hailing from Nashik's Devla taluka, he was the state health minister from 1995-99 in the then Shiv Sena-BJP coalition government.