Nripen Chakraborty, 99; Elected Official, Leader of Marxists in India
Nripen Chakraborty, 99, a veteran Indian Marxist leader and elected official of the Tripura state, died Saturday of cardiac arrest in a Calcutta hospital.
Chakraborty had been associated with the communist movement for six decades, according to the news agency Press Trust of India.
He began his career as a journalist for the Calcutta-based Ananda Bazar Patrika newspaper.
Politically, Chakraborty became a key leader of the pro-China Communist Party of India (Marxist). That helped him win election as chief minister of Tripura state, a position he held for 10 years.
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