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Senior CPI(M) Leader Shyamal Chakraborty Dies of COVID-19

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A former minister during the 34-year rule of Left Front governments of West Bengal, Chakraborty was a leading trade unionist and state secretary of CITU.
Senior CPI(M) Leader Shyamal Chakraborty Dies of COVID-19

Kolkata: Senior CPI(M) leader Shyamal Chakraborty died of COVID-19 at a hospital in Kolkata on Thursday, party sources said. He was 76.

CPI(M) expresses its deep sadness at the demise of Shyamal Chakraborty. Comrade Shyamal was a veteran trade union leader, former minister and Central Committee member of the CPI(M). Today the working class and the left movement in the country has lost an important voice. pic.twitter.com/FieF0JM5c5

— CPI (M) (@cpimspeak) August 6, 2020

Chakraborty, the three-time transport minister of West Bengal from 1982 to 1996, was admitted to the hospital after he tested positive for COVID-19 on July 30.

He was also a two-time Rajya Sabha member and a veteran trade unionist and state secretary of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions.

"He died this afternoon. He was on ventilation for the last few days," a party leader said.

He is survived by daughter Ushasi Chakraborty, an actor.

Chakraborty is the second notable politician from the state to die of COVID-19. Trinamool Congress MLA Tamonash Ghosh succumbed to the contagion in June.

On Wednesday, Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation councillor Subhash Bose also died of COVID-19.

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