{"id":174012,"date":"2021-10-12T00:19:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T18:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=174012"},"modified":"2021-10-12T00:19:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T18:49:25","slug":"tripura-left-front-convener-dies-due-to-covid-related-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/12\/tripura-left-front-convener-dies-due-to-covid-related-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripura Left front convener dies due to COVID-related complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agartala, Oct 11 (PTI) Veteran communist leader and convener of opposition Left Front in Tripura, Bijan Dhar, died on Monday in a Kolkata hospital due to COVID-related complications, a party member said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhar, 70, a Marxist ideologue and prominent political strategist is survived by wife Ila and daughter Gopa. His body would be flown to Agartala in the evening, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The communist leader was associated with students&#8217; politics since the 1970s and was elected to the CPI(M)&#8217;s state committee in 1978. He became a member of the state secretariat in 1995.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhar was made party secretary in 2008, a post he held for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2018, he was elected unanimously as the convener of the Left Front.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The politburo of the CPI(M) has expressed profound shock and grief over his death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, too, condoled Dhar&#8217;s demise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I am deeply mourned at the demise of the former CPI(M) secretary and Left Front convener Bijan Dhar. I pray for the departed soul&#8217;s peace. I pray to God for strength to the bereaved family to endure the pain, Deb wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agartala, Oct 11 (PTI) Veteran communist leader and convener of opposition Left Front in Tripura, Bijan Dhar, died on Monday in a Kolkata hospital due to COVID-related complications, a party member said. Dhar, 70, a Marxist ideologue and prominent political strategist is survived by wife Ila and daughter Gopa. His body would be flown to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}