{"id":316212,"date":"2019-10-31T05:14:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T05:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316212"},"modified":"2019-10-31T05:14:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T05:14:16","slug":"cpi-leader-gurudas-dasgupta-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cpi-leader-gurudas-dasgupta-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta passes away"},"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-full wp-image-316213 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/guru-ram-das.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/guru-ram-das.jpg 670w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/guru-ram-das-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/guru-ram-das-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/guru-ram-das-583x420.jpg 583w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/>Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and former MP Gurudas Dasgupta passed away on Thursday following a prolonged illness. He was 83.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dasgupta was suffering from lung cancer for past many months, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is survived by his wife and daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dasgupta was a veteran trade union leader of the All India Trade Union\u00a0Congress (AITUC). In 1985, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dasgupta was also a member of the Lok Sabha from Panskura and in 2004 was again elected to the lower House of Parliament in 2009 from Ghatal seat.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and former MP Gurudas Dasgupta passed away on Thursday following a prolonged illness. He was 83. Dasgupta was suffering from lung cancer for past many months, sources said. He is survived by his wife and daughter. Dasgupta was a veteran trade union leader of the All India Trade Union\u00a0Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2014,2917],"tags":[11939],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316212"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316214,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316212\/revisions\/316214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}