West Bengal Transport Minister passes away

By ANI
Monday, August 3, 2009

KOLKATA - West Bengal Minister for Transport, Sports and Youth Affairs Subhas Chakraborty passed away at a private hospital in Salt Lake on Monday.

Sixty-eight-year-old Chakraborty is survived by his wife and a son.

According to party sources, the senior CPI (M) leader had been on ventilator support and died at 11:35 a.m. He was suffering from cancer.

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and other senior CPI-M leaders visited the hospital. (ANI)

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