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Ailing CPI-M leader Ashok Bhattacharya's health condition improves

| @indiablooms | Aug 28, 2019, at 07:37 pm

Kolkata: Ailing senior CPI-M leader and Siliguri Mayor Ashok Bhattacharya, who has undergone angioplasty, is now doing well.

Bhattacharya, who suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday, was admitted to a city hospital on August 27.

After undergoing angioplasty, the veteran politician and former West Bengal Minister has been shifted to the ward.

"Mr. Ashok Bhattacharya is doing well. He has been shifted to the ward today. He has responded well to the treatment," said his doctor Dr. Shuvanan Ray.

Bhattacharya remained the Minister for Municipal Affairs, Urban Development, Town and Country Planning, during the Left regime in the state till 2011, the year in which his party was voted out of power.

He assumed the Mayor's post in Siliguri Municipal Corporation in 2015. Earlier the leader remained the chairman of Siliguri municipality between 1987 to 1991.

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