Senior journalist and Jajpur Road Correspondent of daily ‘Samaja’ Karamchand laha passed away on Thursday evening at a hospital in Bhubaneswar. He was 69 and is survived by a son and two daughters. He had been in journalism profession 43 years.
He had been under treatment since August 16 following a brain stroke. His body was brought to Jajpur Road on Friday morning.Many local journalists including Udaynath Khandai, Abhay Pati, Ranga Ballav Sahoo, Baburam Jena, Prakash Rout, Nityananda Mahalik, Santosh Rath, Dushmant Rout, Sangram Singh, Malaya Mallick, Sujit Mallick, Dilu Patnaik, Pulin Khuntia, Rajat Saha, Pranab Biswal, Pitabas Bhuyan, Pabitra Routray, Umakant Rout, Sarat Pothal, Haradhan Banerjee, Gyana Ranjan Ojha, Chandramani Patra, Sanjay Harichandan, Chintamani Parhi, Biswajit Kar and litu Sahoo and several political leaders and social workers including Satyanarayan Mohanty, Bidyadhar Mohanty, Prafulla Nayak, Prafulla Boitai, Bibekananda Mohanty and Biswajit Mohanty participated in laha’s funeral procession.