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22Aug

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Sangram Keshari Jena, Politician

Sangram Keshari Jena, a former Odisha youth Congress president and son of former party state president Jayadev Jena, succumbed to post-Covid complications at a hospital in Hyderabad on Thursday. Sangram (43), a popular youth leader, was on ventilator support in Bhubaneswar for more than three weeks after he tested positive in April. He was airlifted to Hyderabad in May for ECMO treatment. Sangram’s family members, quoting the doctors, said his condition deteriorated rapidly on Wednesday night. The doctors declared him dead in the early hours of Thursday. In 2014, Sangram had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha election from the Bhadrak seat on a Congress ticket.

28Jun

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Mike Gravel, politician

Two-time U.S. presidential candidate and former US Senator Mike Gravel is dead. The 91-year-old Alaska Democrat is remembered for attracting national attention by reading the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record, while also making two unsuccessful bids for president.. Gravel's daughter, Lynne Mosier described her father as a "terrific dad” while confirming his death in a message to CNN on June 27. Gravel was born on May 13, 1930, in Springfield, Massachusetts and served in the US Army as an adjutant in the Communications Intelligence Service in Germany, besides later as special agent in the Counter Intelligence Corps in France from 1951 to 1954, according to a biography on his website. Later, Gravel graduated from Columbia University in 1956 with a Bachelor of...

14Sep

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Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, politician

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, an Indian politician, passed away at Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on September 13, 2020, following complications arising from Coronavirus Just two days after he sent a hand-written note to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav notifying him of his decision to resign from the party after being in it for over three decades, senior party leader and former state minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh passed away from Covid-19-related complications. Singh, a lifelong fixture of the RJD, died on Sunday morning at the AIIMS. He was 74. Yadav, who had summarily rejected Singh’s resignation asking him to get well first and then talk about his future with the RJD, reacted in disbelief saying “Dear Raghuvansh ...

29Aug

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H Vasanthakumar, politician

H Vasanthakumar, Congress MP from Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari who had tested positive for the coronavirus, died on August 28, 2020. The 70-year old leader was admitted to an Apollo Hospital in Chennai on August 10 with a coronavirus infection. He was in critical condition after contracting severe pneumonia and had been placed on ventilator support, doctors said. "Despite all active medical measures, his condition deteriorated gradually due to COVID complications and he passed away today," the hospital said. Fondly called Annachi or brother, he is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter, a party spokesperson said. A first-time MP from Tamil Nadu, H Vasanthakumar had also been elected MLA twice in the past from the Nanguneri assembly constituency and was...

4Aug

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Sunnam Rajaiah, politician

Sunnam Rajaiah -- former Bhadrachalam MLA, senior CPI (M) leader and Girijana Sangam leader -- reportedly died of COVID-19 in the wee hours on August 4, 2020. He was 68 years old. He died while being shifted from the Indian city of Hyderabad to a COVID-19 Hospital in Vijayawada. He is survived by wife and two sons and two daughters. A native of Sunnamvaari Gudem village, V.R. Puram mandal, in East Godavari district, Mr. Rajaiah served as Bhadrachalam MLA for three times. He participated in many tribal agitations, protecting tribal lands and their rights in the Agency areas in Bhadrachalam, East and West Godavari districts. The three-time MLA also participated in many agitations in CPI (M). The AP Girijana Sangam, Adivasi Sankshema Sangam and leaders of other organizations...

3Aug

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Kamla Rani Varun, politician

Kamla Rani Varun Kamla Rani Varun, an Indian politician, died on August 2, days after testing positive for COVID-19. She was 62 years old. Ms. Varun, who was Technical Education minister in the Yogi Adityanath Cabinet of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, died during treatment at the SGPGI in Lucknow around 9.30 am. She tested positive and was receiving treatment, said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath while delivering his condolence message. Ms. Varun was an MLA from Ghatampur in Kanpur and had been promoted to the State Cabinet in August 2019 when the Adityanath government went in for an expansion following the Lok Sabha victory. She was a former councillor and pracharak of the Seva Bharti, an affiliate of the RSS. She had success in the Lok Sabha elections in the past, winning from G...

3Aug

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Satya Narain Singh, politician

Satya Narain Singh -- Bihar State secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and two-time former MLA -- died of COVID-19 late on August 2, 2020. Suffering from the pandemic, he was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, on July 30 where he died. “He breathed his last at 9.30 p.m. on Sunday here. Before being admitted to AIIMS, Patna, he was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 infection at a private hospital of the State capital,” said an AIIMS doctor. Mr. Singh, 77, won from the erstwhile Chautham Assembly constituency in Khagaria district in 1990 and 1995. The Hindu

31Jul

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Herman Cain, politician

Herman Cain – a US politician and former presidential candidate ‑ died of coronavirus on July 30, 2020. He was 74. "Herman Cain – our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us – has passed away," editor of the website Dan Calabrese wrote. "He's entering the presence of the Saviour he's served as an associate minister at Antioch Baptist Church in Atlanta, and preparing for his reward." Mr Calabrese noted that because of his history with cancer and his age, Mr Cain was in a high-risk group. "We knew when he was first hospitalised with COVID-19 that this was going to be a rough fight," Calabrese wrote. "He had trouble breathing and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. "We all prayed that the in...

31Jul

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Sergio Muñoz Sr, politician

Sergio Muñoz Sr., a US politician, died on July 30, 2020, after recently becoming ill with COVID-19,. The father of current state Rep. Sergio Muñoz Jr. and the party’s vice chair, Muñoz Sr. served as representative for Texas’ 36th district between 1993 and 1997. The Palmview native was 68 at the time of his death. He died at DHR Health (Doctors Hospital at Renaissance) in Edinburg. “I know he fought a hard long battle to the end, and that was just who he was,” Muñoz Jr. said of his father. “He never gave up.” In 1995, during the 74th Legislature, Muñoz Sr. served on the House Committee on Elections, which among several tasks reviewed early voting by mail problems and provided oversight of that year&rsq...

31Jul

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M Gunaprasad, politician

M Gunaprasad -- an Indian politician, Bodhan municipal councillor and TRS floor leader -- died of Covid-19 on July 30, 2020. Gunaprasad was a senior councillor in Bodhan Municipality and elected as councillor four times from 1995. He had been the floor leader of TRS party in the municipality. He and his wife were infected with Covid-19 a few days ago and were taking treatment at Deccan Hospital, Hyderabad. Telangana Today