Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi dead

Mon, 20 November 2017

13:05

Congress leader Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi passes away, reports the Indian Express. Dasmunsi, a former MP and Information and Broadcasting Minister, has been in Apollo Hospital since 2008, after he suffered a stroke and a paralytic attack.

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