Gurgaon: Former Union minister and Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla(84), who was badly injured in the naxal attack on a Congress convoy in Chhattisgarh succumbed to his injuries at Gurgaons Medanta hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

Though Shukla had shown marginal improvement a week back, his condition again detorated following an infection.

Shukla had sustained three bullet wounds after he was caught in the middle of an ambush by Maoists on a Congress convoy in Chhattisgarhs Bastar district on 25 May.

Prior to being moved to Gurgaon, Shukla had underwent an operation at a Jagdalpur hospital for removal of the bullets.