Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passed away
13th August, 2018Category:
Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passed away on Monday morning at a Kolkata hospital due to kidney related ailments and old age complications. He was 89. He is survived by his wife, son and daughter. He suffered a hemorrhagic stroke in June and was hospitalised for more than a month.
Mr. Chatterjee was the Speaker in the first five-year term (2004-2009) of the United Progressive Alliance government and was elected to the Parliament Lower House ten times since 1971. He was expelled from the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in July 2008 for refusing to resign as Speaker after CPI-M withdrew support from the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
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