Senior Congress leader Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi passed away at a private hospital in New Delhi on Monday, nine years after he slipped into a coma.
Dasmunshi (72), breathed his last at 12.30 pm at the Apollo Hospital here where he was admitted to the ICU after he contracted a lung infection last week.
Dasmunshi was a member of the Lok Sabha from 1999 to 2009. He served as the Union minister of parliamentary affairs, water resources and the minister of information and broadcasting from 2004 to 2008, during the first term of the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government.
His mortal remains will be brought to the AICC headquarters at 3:30 pm. Congress president Sonia Gandhi expressed her heartfelt condolences on the passing away of Dasmunshi. “In a career spanning almost five decades, Dasmunsi served the party and government illustriously,” said Sonia. (DH nNews)
