Former Bengal minister Pratim Chatterjee passes away in Kolkata
Kolkata, Mar 18 (IBNS): All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) leader and former Fire Brigade minister during the Left regime in West Bengal, Pratim Chatterjee, passed away in Kolkata on Sunday morning, reports said.
Pratim Chatterjee was suffering from different kinds of illnesses, including breathing trouble and liver problems, due to advanced age and he was undergoing treatment since last few years.
Chatterjee was admitted in a privately-run hospital in Salt Lake on Sunday early morning as his health condition deteriorated and he died due to cardiac failure at around 10:10 am.
He was 79.
Former Secretary-General of AIFB, Pratim Chatterjee, was an MLA from Tarakeshwar assembly constituency in Hooghly district of West Bengal and he served as the state Fire minister from 1996 to 2011 - 15 long years.
He was associated with several theatre and drama groups and appeared in few Bengali movies as well.
Left Front Chairman Biman Bose, West Bengal CPI-M General Secretary Surya Kanta Mishra and other political leaders of the state expressed deep condolences over the death of the senior Forward Bloc leader.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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