Somnath Chatterjee

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Somnath Chatterjee: Party leaders remember excellent constitutionalist

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Chatterjee was a stalwart of Indian politics.

14 Aug 2018 6:07 AM

Somnath Chatterjee, 89, dies, kin shuns CPM’s condolence

Lok Sabha Speaker from 2004 to 2009, Chatterjee represented the CPI(M) 10 times in Parliament.

14 Aug 2018 1:45 AM

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee pays her last respects to former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee at state Assembly in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI )

Ex-LS Speaker Somnath Chatterjee dies at 89

Eighty-nine-year-old Chatterjee, who was suffering from a kidney-related ailment, was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday.

14 Aug 2018 1:33 AM

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, who passed away this morning, had never said anything against the CPI(M), although he was “pained” after the Left party expelled him, his daughter said.

Expulsion pained father, says Somnath’s daughter

When asked about it, CPI(M) MLA Sujan Chakraborty said, “It is better not to discuss it in this day of grief.”

14 Aug 2018 12:51 AM

Somnath embellished Speaker’s standing

Somnath was the kind of a man who made the Speaker’s post sacrosanct.

14 Aug 2018 12:14 AM

Somnath Chatterjee died on Monday morning at a private hospital in Kolkata following multiple organ failure. (Photo: File | PTI)

Somnath Chatterjee’s body to be donated to Kolkata hospital for medical research

Somnath Chatterjee, who was associated with CPI (M) for most of his life, had pledged to donate his body to medical science in 2004.

13 Aug 2018 6:44 PM

Somnath Chatterjee is survived by wife Renu, a son and two daughters. (Photo: File | PTI)

Somnath Chatterjee: Expelled from CPM for ‘rising above party politics’

Somnath Chatterjee was elected to Lok Sabha 10 times from 1971.

13 Aug 2018 12:27 PM

Somnath Chatterjee, one of the longest-serving parliamentarians in India, was not keeping well from the last few months. (Photo: File | PTI)

Somnath Chatterjee, former Lok Sabha Speaker, dies of cardiac arrest at 89

The Communist Party of India Marxist veteran was suffering from kidney ailment and was put on ventilator support on Saturday.

13 Aug 2018 9:32 AM

Chatterjee, who is one of the longest-serving parliamentarians in India, is not keeping well from the past few months. (Photo: ANI)

CPI(M) veteran Somnath Chatterjee’s health critical, on ventilator support

The CPI(M) veteran is suffering from kidney ailment and was put on ventilator support on Saturday.

12 Aug 2018 1:05 PM

Security personnel try to disperse a mob after clashes between BJP and TMC activists during the counting of votes for panchayat polls, at Mallarpur in Birbhum district of West Bengal. (Photo: PTI)

WB Panchayat poll: Electoral malpractices, violence on unabated

To tackle the situation, the police fired in the air. In other places also, BJP workers came under attack by the Trinamul activists.

18 May 2018 6:07 AM

Mamata-PM meet is a mutual understanding, says Somnath Chatterjee

He underlined that uncontested win by ruling party is the norm of the autocracy.

03 May 2018 1:13 AM

Somnath worried over rural polls security

Ex-Speaker says police does not have strength to cover state in a day poll.

30 Apr 2018 1:30 AM

Ex-speaker Chatterjee worried about rural violence

Chatterjee said adding that people should come out in protest against this violence.

26 Apr 2018 7:00 AM

Comrade Karat and the poverty of philosophy

The erudite Prakash Karat had announced that Modi’s government is not fascist.

17 Feb 2018 3:39 AM

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