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Both Houses of Parliament adjourned before time on Tuesday afternoon, after news was received of the demise of Congress leader, Union Minister and former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh. President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh condoled Deshmukh's death. Deshmukh, 67, breathed his last at Chennai's Global Hospital and Health City following multiple organ failure at 1.40 p.m. on Tuesday. His last rites will be performed on Wednesday at around 4 p.m. at his native place Babhalgaon in Latur District, Maharashtra . The national flag will fly at half-mast out of respect for Deshmukh. Deshmukh, who was on life-support while undergoing treatment for a serious liver ailment and multiple organ failure, was admitted to the hospital on August 6. and the doctors had been planning to retrieve the liver from a donor at the hospital for him. Vilasrao Deshmukh, who previously held the posts of Minister of Rural Development and Minister of Panchayati Raj and Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, was a Maratha leader from Latur, Maharashtra . Deshmukh was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra twice, from 1999 to 2003 and from 2004 to 2008. He was earlier undergoing treatment at Breach Candy hospital in Mumbai for about a week and had to be shifted to the super speciality hospital in Chennai due to a deterioration in his condition. His wife Vaishali Deshmukh and three sons survive Deshmukh.

Parliament adjourns, paying homage to Vilasrao Deshmukh