 "CPI leader A B Bardhan dead")
Veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader A.B. Bardhan died at a hospital here on Saturday, a doctor said. He was 93.
"The CPI leader died at 8.20 p.m. Our team tried hard but could not save him. His condition was very critical," said Dr. Vinod, who led the medical team at G.B. Pant Hospital here.
Bardhan had suffered a paralytic stroke on December 7, following which he was admitted to the hospital.
Bardhan contested several elections from his constituency, Nagpur, but won only once in 1957 when he stood for the Maharashtra State Assembly as an Independent candidate.
He moved to Delhi politics in the 1990s and became the deputy general secretary of the CPI, succeeding Indrajit Gupta as the party's General Secretary in 1996.