The last rites of former MlA from Ranikhet, Puran Mahra were performed at his native place at Ranikhet on Monday. He breathed his last at his residence late Sunday night. He was 68. Among others, the Chief Minister Harish Rawat, Speaker of the State Assembly, Govind Singh Kunjwal and Pradesh Congress Committee president Kishore Upadhyay among others paid tributes to the departed leader at his residence.
The departed leader was born in Ranikhet in 1947. He represented Ranikhet in the Uttar Pradesh legislative Assembly between 1985 and 1989 as an MlA. Earlier this year, the CM had nominated Mahra the vice chairman of the 21 member State policy planning group. He was also the chairman of the state Congress disciplinary committee and vice- president of the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee in the past.
In his condolence, Harish Rawat described the death as an irreparable loss for the state. He always championed the cause of the unprivileged and worked for the welfare of the people, added the CM. Among others state Mahila Congress president Sarita Arya, MP (RS) Mahendra Singh Mahra, former MP from Almora-Pithoragarh Parliamentary constituency, Pradeep Tamta, Parliamentary secretary Manoj Tiwari and many other Congress activists were present.