Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Badal's father Gurdas Singh Badal, passed away at the age of 90 at a hospital in Mohali on late Thursday night, his son informed on Friday.
His last rites will be performed in the family's ancestral village.
The friends and well-wishers have been requested to refrain from attending the funeral ceremony due to the coronavirus situation.
"It is with great sorrow that I inform about the demise of my father S. Gurdas Singh Badal. He passed away last night at Fortis Hospital, Mohali. He was 90," Manpreet Singh Badal said in a tweet on Friday.
"His health had started deteriorating after my mother's death in March and he was on a life-support system for the past few days."
"We will like to request all friends and well-wishers to refrain from attending the funeral ceremony which will be held in our ancestral village (Badal), " he added.
Gurdas Badal was the younger brother of former Punjab Chief Minister and Shirom Akali Dal patriarch, Parkash Singh Badal.
( With inputs from ANI )