The West Bengal state assembly today paid rich tributes to former union minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, who died in Delhi on Monday.
Obituary references were made in the house and Speaker Biman Banerjee read out accounts of his life, work and acheivements.
As a mark of respect the house stood up in silence for two minutes.
Dasmunsi, once a key Congress leader from West Bengal, died in a New Delhi hospital on November 20 after being in coma for nine years.
The former president of Indian Youth Congress and West Bengal Congress, Dasmunsi, who was called Priya-da by most of his supporters, held the key ministries of information and broadcasting and parliamentary affairs in the UPA-I government led by Manmohan Singh.
A five-time MP from Raiganj in West Bengal, he had headed the All India Football Federation too.
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