LS Speaker Sumitra Mahajan pays last tribute to predecessor late Somnath Chatterjee
Kolkata, Aug 13 (IBNS): Lok Speaker Sumitra Mahajan paid her last tribute to her predecessor Somnath Chatterjee, who passed away on Monday.
Mahajan paid her last tribute at around 5.30 pm at Chatterjee's residence at Raja Basanta Roy Road, Kolkata.
Earlier, Chatterjee was given the gun salute at Vidhan Sabha by the state.
Chatterjee (89) was admitted in a Kolkata hospital for the past few days.
He was reportedly suffering from a kidney-related ailment.
He was in and out of the hospital for the past few months, reports said.
Somnath Chatterjee had joined the CPI-M in 1968 and was a central committee member of the party.
He had served as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2004-2009.
Chatterjee, however, was expelled from the CPI-M in 2008 after he refused to resign as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha following his party's decision to withdraw support to the UPA-I government.
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