{"id":324209,"date":"2020-06-24T05:22:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T05:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324209"},"modified":"2020-06-24T05:22:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T05:22:48","slug":"tmc-mla-tamonash-ghosh-dies-after-testing-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/tmc-mla-tamonash-ghosh-dies-after-testing-positive-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"TMC MLA Tamonash Ghosh dies after testing positive for coronavirus"},"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-324210 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/tamonash-ghosh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/tamonash-ghosh.jpg 586w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/tamonash-ghosh-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/tamonash-ghosh-515x420.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/>Trinamool Congress MLA Tamonash Ghosh, who had tested positive for the coronavirus last month, died in a hospital in West Bengal. He was 60.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The three-time MLA from Falta assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district had tested positive for disease in May and was admitted to a hospital ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her grief over Ghosh\u2019s death and offered condolences to his family and friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cVery, very sad. Tamonash Ghosh, 3-time MLA from Falta &amp; party treasurer since 1998 had to leave us today. Been with us for over 35 years, he was dedicated to the cause of the people &amp; party. He contributed much through his social work,\u201d Mamata tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHe has left a void that will be difficult to fill. On behalf of all of us, heartfelt condolences to his wife Jharna, his two daughters, friends and well wishers,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">West Bengal has so far reported 14,728 COVID-19 cases with 580 fatalities, according to Health Ministry data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress MLA Tamonash Ghosh, who had tested positive for the coronavirus last month, died in a hospital in West Bengal. He was 60. The three-time MLA from Falta assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district had tested positive for disease in May and was admitted to a hospital ever since. West Bengal Chief Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2014,2917],"tags":[13132,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324209"}],"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=324209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324211,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324209\/revisions\/324211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}