NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Raila Odinga , a former prime minister of Kenya and perennial presidential candidate whose populist campaigns rattled authorities and gave him an outsized influence on political life in his East African country, died Wednesday of a heart attack while traveling in India. He was 80.

His death was confirmed by the Devamatha Hospital in India’s Kerala State, where he was taken after he collapsed during a morning walk. A statement from the hospital said Odinga suffered a cardiac arrest and didn’t respond to resuscitation efforts.

FILE - Presidential candidate Raila Odinga arrives to attend Sunday mass in St. Francis church in Nairobi, Kenya, Aug. 14, 2022. (Mosa'ab Elshamy | AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on the social plat

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