Senior BJP leader working as member of State Executive Committee Gama Singh on Tuesday breathed his last. People close to Singh said that he was taken to Guru Nanak Hospital after complaint of stomach pain and was declared dead there on Tuesday.
Chief Minister Raghubar Das, Ministers Neelkanth Singh Munda, Amar Kumar bauri, CP Singh and other accompanying the CM on China visit expressed deep shock on Gama Singh’s demise and talked to the kin of the senior leader from China over phone.
Former CM Arjun Munda, his wife Meera Munda, Minister Saryu Roy, Organisational Secretary Dharmpal, Aditya Sahu, Usha Pandey, Pradeep Vaerma, Deepak Prakash, Anant Ojha, Subodh Singh along with a large number of leaders and his well wishers reached Gama Singh’s home and paid homage to him.
State BJP president laxman Gilua visited Gama Singh’s house and paid floral tributes to him. Gilua said that that the BJP has lost a devoted, amicable and sensitive worker and the whole State BJP unit is in grief after his demise.
Gama Singh entered BJP in 1982 and shouldered several key responsibilities in the party. He is survived by wife, four sons and two daughters. Singh’s body will be kept for ‘Antim Darshan’ at BJP office at 11:20 AM, where people can pay tributes to him.