NEW DELHI (AP) — A senior politician in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, who was also known for his close ties with Bollywood has been shot dead weeks before a key state election.

NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique has been reportedly assassinatedSiddique, a top politician died in a hospital after being shot by three men in Mumbai’s Bandra East area on Saturday night,

An Indian politician has been shot dead in the commercial capital, Mumbai. Gunmen opened fire on Baba Siddique, 66, near the office of his son, who is also a politician, according to local media reports. Two people have been arrested in connection with the killing.

The fourth man involved in the murder of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique is from Punjab's Jalandhar, police sources have said.

MUMBAI - A senior politician in India’s financial capital Mumbai was shot dead on Oct 12, weeks ahead of key state elections, with police probing the role of a notorious crime gang.

Since the 1960s, nearly half a dozen politicians in Mumbai have been killed by gangs, revealing the city's dark underbelly of political rivalry intertwined with organised crime.

Incident raises concerns about political violence ahead of Maharashtra elections, and at a resurgence of the gang violence that Mumbai has successfully curbed in recent years

Nationalist Congress Party leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique was shot dead by three men in Mumbai's Bandra area on Saturday.