{"id":301364,"date":"2018-08-13T05:50:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T05:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301364"},"modified":"2018-08-13T05:50:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T05:50:54","slug":"former-lok-sabha-speaker-somnath-chatterjee-passes-away-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-lok-sabha-speaker-somnath-chatterjee-passes-away-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lok Sabha Speaker, Somnath Chatterjee, passes away at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-301365 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/somnath-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/somnath-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/somnath-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/somnath.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passed away on Monday morning at Belle Vue Clinic in\u00a0Kolkata\u00a0at the age of 89.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A ten-time Lok Sabha MP, Chatterjee is survived by his wife, son, and daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSomnath Chatterjee passed away today\u00a0morning at around\u00a08 am\u00a0due to kidney-related ailments and old age complications, said Belle Vue Clinic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chatterjee has been on ventilator support for the last five days and had suffered a heart attack on Sunday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President of India, Ram Nath Kovind condoling the death of former speaker said, \u201cSorry to hear of the passing of Shri Somnath Chatterjee, former Speaker of the Lok Sabha and a veteran parliamentarian who had a forceful presence in the House. A loss for public life in Bengal and India. My condolences to his family and innumerable well-wishers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Narendra Modi mourned the loss of Chatterjee and said, \u201cFormer MP and Speaker Shri Somnath Chatterjee was a stalwart of Indian politics. He made our Parliamentary democracy richer and was a strong voice for the well-being of the poor and vulnerable. Anguished by his demise. My thoughts are with his family and supporters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress president Rahul Gandhi expressed his condolences, in a tweet, he said, \u201cI mourn the passing away of Shri Somnath Chatterjee, 10 term MP and former Speaker of the Lok Sabha. He was an institution. Greatly respected and admired by all parliamentarians, across party lines. My condolences to his family at this time of grief.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passed away on Monday morning at Belle Vue Clinic in\u00a0Kolkata\u00a0at the age of 89. A ten-time Lok Sabha MP, Chatterjee is survived by his wife, son, and daughter. \u201cSomnath Chatterjee passed away today\u00a0morning at around\u00a08 am\u00a0due to kidney-related ailments and old age complications, said Belle Vue Clinic.\u00a0 Chatterjee has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[406,316,579,1452,4130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301366,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301364\/revisions\/301366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}