{"id":12706,"date":"2020-08-06T22:18:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T22:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=12706"},"modified":"2020-08-06T22:18:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T22:18:20","slug":"shyamal-chakraborty-veteran-cpm-leader-shyamal-chakraborty-dies-of-covid-19-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=12706","title":{"rendered":"Shyamal Chakraborty: Veteran CPM leader Shyamal Chakraborty dies of Covid-19 | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>KOLKATA: Senior CPM leader <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Shyamal-Chakraborty-died-of-Covid-19\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Shyamal-Chakraborty-died-of-Covid-19\" frmappuse=\"1\">Shyamal Chakraborty died of Covid-19<\/a> at a hospital in Kolkata on Thursday, party sources said. He was 76. <br \/>Chakraborty, the three-time transport minister of West Bengal from 1982 to 1996, was admitted to the hospital after he tested positive for Covid-19 on July 30. <br \/>He was also a two-time Rajya Sabha member and a veteran trade unionist. <br \/>&#8220;He died this afternoon. He was on ventilation for the last few days,&#8221; a party leader said. <br \/>He is survived by daughter Ushasi Chakraborty, an actor. <br \/>Chakraborty is the second notable politician from the state to die of Covid-19. Trinamool Congress MLA Tamonash Ghosh succumbed to the contagion in June. <br \/>On Wednesday, Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation councillor Subhash Bose also died of Covid-19. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/veteran-cpm-leader-shyamal-chakraborty-dies-of-covid-19\/articleshow\/77391409.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Senior CPM leader Shyamal Chakraborty died of Covid-19 at a hospital in Kolkata on Thursday, party sources said. He was 76. Chakraborty, the three-time transport minister of West Bengal from 1982 to 1996, was admitted to the hospital after he tested positive for Covid-19 on July 30. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1596752302_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}