Veteran CPI leader and ex-MLA Biswanath Sahu passes away

19 March, Bhubaneswar

Veteran Communist leader and former Chhatrapur MLA Biswanath Sahu died at his residence at Badakusasthali in Ganjam district Friday night.

He was 91. Born in 1925, Sahu had represented the Chhatrapur Assembly constituency as the CPI candidate twice in 1977 and 1981. He was the chairman of the state control committee at the time of his death. His body was brought here today and kept at Bhagawati Bhawan, the CPI state headquarter to help the party activists pay their last homage to the great leader.

CPI general secretary Sudhakar Reddy and CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury who came here to attend a rally organised by the left parties paid their floral tribute to the leader.

CPI state secretary Dibakar Nayak, CPI-M state secretray Ali Kishore Patnaik and many other left party leaders also paid their last tribute to the leader.

Later his mortal remains were consigned to flames at swargadwar in Puri.