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Guwahati, Jul 27 (PTI) Former Assam minister Ardhendu Kumar Dey died at a hospital here on Wednesday following a brief illness, family sources said.<\/p>\n
He was 84.<\/p>\n
Dey was undergoing treatment at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) for sometime, they said.<\/p>\n
A former Congress minister, Dey’s mortal remains were taken to his residence at Hojai where the last rites were performed.<\/p>\n
Dey was first elected to the state Legislative Assembly in 1991 from Hojai constituency and went on to hold it till 2006.<\/p>\n
He was re-elected from the same constituency in 2011.<\/p>\n
Dey held different portfolios, including Soil Conservation and Irrigation, in Tarun Gogoi’s Cabinet.<\/p>\n
Denied a party ticket, he joined the BJP ahead of 2021 state elections.<\/p>\n
BJP state president Bhabesh Kalita, expressing his condolences, said with Dey’s death, the state has lost an important leader.<\/p>\n
Assam Pradesh Congress Committee has also expressed grief at the death of its former leader.<\/p>\n
APCC working president Kamalakshya Dey Purkayastha visited Dey’s Hojai residence and offered last respects on behalf of the party.<\/p>\n
AIUDF supremo and Lok Sabha MP Badruddin Ajmal, in a condolence message, said Dey remained connected with the people and his death is a loss for the entire state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Guwahati, Jul 27 (PTI) Former Assam minister Ardhendu Kumar Dey died at a hospital here on Wednesday following a brief illness, family sources said. He was 84. Dey was undergoing treatment at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) for sometime, they said. A former Congress minister, Dey’s mortal remains were taken to his residence […]<\/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-196522","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\/196522","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=196522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}