Pune: Senior BJP leader and former MLC Prof Narayan Sadashiv Pharande passed away in a private hospital in Pune on Tuesday morning after suffering a cardiac arrest, an official said. He was 78.

Pharande was admitted to the city-based MJM Hospital about a fortnight ago after he suffered from intra-cranial bleeding (cerebral hemorrhage) which caused paralysis, the official at the hospital said. He died after suffering a cardiac arrest this morning, he said.