{"id":324996,"date":"2020-07-30T03:43:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T03:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324996"},"modified":"2020-07-30T03:43:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T03:43:14","slug":"west-bengal-congress-president-somen-mitra-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-congress-president-somen-mitra-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal Congress President Somen Mitra 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-324997 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/somen-mitra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"731\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/somen-mitra.jpg 731w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/somen-mitra-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/somen-mitra-696x543.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/somen-mitra-539x420.jpg 539w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/>West Bengal Congress president Somen Mitra passed away in the early hours of Thursday. He was 78.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He died due to age-related ailments at a hospital in Kolkata, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">West Bengal Youth Congress confirmed Mitra&#8217;s demise in a tweet and said, \u201cWBPCC President Somen Mitra has breathed his last, a short while ago. As we struggle to come to terms with this immense loss, all our prayers and thoughts are with Dada\u2019s family. May his soul rest in peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mitra is survived by his wife and son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi condoled Mitra\u2019s demise and said, \u201cAll my love and support to family and friends of Somen Mitra at this difficult time. We will remember him with love, fondness and respect.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Congress president Somen Mitra passed away in the early hours of Thursday. He was 78. He died due to age-related ailments at a hospital in Kolkata, sources said. West Bengal Youth Congress confirmed Mitra&#8217;s demise in a tweet and said, \u201cWBPCC President Somen Mitra has breathed his last, a short while ago. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2014,2917],"tags":[10208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324996"}],"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=324996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324998,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324996\/revisions\/324998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}