Nonagenarian CPI(M) leader and freedom fighter Chitta Chanda has died at a Government medical college here, the party said Tuesday. He was 95.
“Suffering from various old age ailments, he was admitted in Gobinda Ballav Pant Medical College and hospital July 20 and breathed his last there Monday night”, a CPM spokesman told reporters.
Chanda’s body was brought to the party office on Monday night itself to allow people to pay their last respects. Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and other Communist Party of India-Marxist leaders paid floral tributes to the departed leader.