Chaman Lal Gupta
Chaman Lal Gupta (13 April 1934 – 18 May 2021) was an Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir, belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party. He was union minister of state of defence from 2002 to 2004. Earlier, he held a portfolio of food processing and civil aviation. He was born in 1934 in Jammu and did his MSC from G. M. Science College Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) and Allahabad University, Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh). He was elected to Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly in 1972 as a member of Jana Sangh. He was elected to Lok Sabha in 1996, 1998 , and 1999 from Udhampur (Lok Sabha constituency). He was a member of J&K Vidhan Sabha again from 2008 to 2014, as an MLA from Jammu West. He had not been keeping well in his mid 80s. He died of COVID-19 on 18 May 2021, in Jammu, during the COVID-19 pandemic in India.