Communist Party of India Marxist [CPI (M)] Tripura State Secretary Gautam Das passed away from post COVID-19 complications at a hopital in Kolkata on Thursday morning. He was 70-years-old. Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has condoled demise of the veteran CPI(M) leader.
Former party MP Jitendra Chowdhury is now in Kolkata and is making arrangements to send the body to Tripura to perform the last rites. Leaders of West Bengal CPI(M) also reached the private hospital where Das was admitted few days ago.
Gautam Das entered politics through student activism. He became CPI(M) party member in 1971 and had served various organisational posts as student then. Later in 1985, Gautam Das became state committee member and rose to the top post as State Secretary in 1994. He then became member of Central Committee in 2015. Gautam Das served as Editor of the Daily Desher Katha, CPI(M) mouthpiece, for over three decades prior to elevation as State Secretary.
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