Senior CPI leader Khagendra Thakur died at a hospital on Monday after complaining of breathlessness.
He was 82.
Thakur, who was admitted to a hospital in Patna, died at 1.30 pm, party sources said.
A member of the CPI's Jharkhand unit executive committee, he was also the vice-president of Rashtriya Lekhak Sangh.
Born on September 9, 1937 at Malini village in Godda district, Thakur was a Hindi lecturer in Morarka College in Sultanganj.
The CPI(M) has condoled the death.
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