Bengal minister Sadhan Pande passes away

Senior Trinamool Congress leader and West Bengal Minister Sadhan Pande passed away on Sunday. He was 71 and was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Mumbai. Pande was a nine-time MLA from north Kolkata. For the first six terms, he represented Burtola Assembly segment as a Congress representative. Since 2011, he represented Manicktala Assembly segment as a Trinamool Congress MLA. Pande was Minister of Consumer Affairs in the West Bengal government. Pande has been ailing for past few months and was on ventilator support.