CPM leader Biswas is no more
MIL/Tribune Online, Mar 27, 2006.
Kolkata - The CPM Politburo member, Anil Biswas, who was also the party's state secretary in Bengal, died today at 5.25 pm after remaining in coma since March 18 following massive cerebral stroke. He was 62 and is survived by his wife and lone daughter.
The CPM leader suffered the cerebral stroke on the eve of his departure for Malda on March 18. He was immediately taken to a local nursing home and afterwards to Kolkata's Woodland Nursing Home, where a surgery was performed to remove blood clots from his brain as per Subrangshu Gupta, Tribune News Service.
However, he did not regain consciousness. Biswas was at the helm after former state secretary Sailen Dasgupta's death in 2001. Subsequently, he was made an important member in the party's highest policy-making body, the Politburo and the central committee along with the Chief Minister, Mr Budhadeb Bhattacharjee, and Mr Biman Bose.
As news of Mr Biswas's death spread, a large number of party colleagues and the supporters gathered in front of the nursing home. The Chief Minister and other Cabinet colleagues went to the nursing home to pay their last respects.
His body will be kept in the party office at Alimuddin Street for the people to pay their last respects.
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