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Nagabhushan Patnaik passes away

Veteran revolutionary Nagabhushan Patnaik, who symbolised the revolutionary spirit of the Naxalbari and the Srikakulam Armed Struggle, died in Madras yesterday at a private hospital following liver cancer and renal failure.

He was 64. He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.

Patnaik sufferred a cardiac arrest early yesterday, but doctors managed to revive him. He was in a semi-conscious state throughout the day.

The end came at 2230 hours.

His body will be taken to Bhubaneshwar by road this evening for the funeral, with stopovers at Vijayawada, Kathipudi near Kakinada and Balasa in Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh to enable his supporters to pay their last respects.

Senior Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist Politburo members and party general secretary Vinod Mishra, MP, will accompany the body to Bhubaneshwar, where the funeral is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.

Hundreds of mourners, including those belonging to the two Communist parties, as also the CPI-ML Liberation and the trade union movement lined up at the CPI-ML office at Ayanavaram in Madras to pay homage to Patnaik.

UNI

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