{"id":183222,"date":"2022-02-03T00:52:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T19:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=183222"},"modified":"2022-02-03T00:52:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T19:22:06","slug":"veteran-cpim-leader-former-tripura-assembly-speaker-r-c-debnath-dies-at-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/03\/veteran-cpim-leader-former-tripura-assembly-speaker-r-c-debnath-dies-at-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran CPI(M) leader &#038; former Tripura Assembly Speaker R C Debnath dies at 66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agartala, Feb 2 (PTI) Veteran CPI(M) leader and former Speaker of Tripura Legislative Assembly Ramendra Chandra Debnath died of kidney failure in Kolkata, a party leader said here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was 66 and is survived by wife, son and daughters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Debnath was on dialysis for past few years and he was in Kolkata for treatment where he died on Tuesday leaving a huge vacuum in the political circle , the senior CPI (M) leader said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Debnath is the sitting MLA of Yubarajnagar assembly constituency. He won the seat for the first time in 1993 and won it for six times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was the Speaker of Tripura Legislative Assmbly for three terms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Manik Sarkar, Speaker Ratan Chakraborty expressed their shock over the death of Debnath.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last rites of Debnath will be performed in his native village in Dharmanagar sub-division on Wednesday, the party leader said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agartala, Feb 2 (PTI) Veteran CPI(M) leader and former Speaker of Tripura Legislative Assembly Ramendra Chandra Debnath died of kidney failure in Kolkata, a party leader said here on Wednesday. He was 66 and is survived by wife, son and daughters. &#8220;Debnath was on dialysis for past few years and he was in Kolkata for [&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-183222","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\/183222","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=183222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}