Veteran CPI(M) leader and former West Bengal Minister Shyamal Chakraborty passes away of COVID-19

A senior CPI(M) leader and former West Bengal transport minister, Shyamal Chakraborty has passed away. He was 76.
Chakraborty served as the transport minister of West Bengal for three-times from 1982 to 1996.
He was also a two-time Rajya Sabha member.
Apart from this, he was also the state president of Centre of Indian Trade Unions, (CITU), the trade union arm of CPM.