Somnath Chatterjee's Body to be Donated to Kolkata Hospital

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee who died on Monday donated his body to the state-run SSKM Hospital for medical research. He will be accorded a gun salute at the West Bengal Assembly.

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee who passed away on Monday due to multiple organ failure will be accorded a gun salute at the West Bengal Assembly. After which, his body will be donated to the state-run SSKM Hospital for medical research.//

First his body would be taken to the Calcutta High Court, with which he was associated for a long time. "Then it will be taken to the State Assembly where we will give him the gun salute, the highest honour of the state," Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said.

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‘In 2002, Somnath Chatterjee has pledged to donate his body to the medical college.’

"Later his body will be taken to his residence and then to the SSKM hospital," she said.

Chatterjee had pledged to donate his body to the medical college in 2002.

The former Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader died at the Bellevue Clinic, where he was admitted on August 7 after a heart attack. He was also suffering from a kidney-related ailment.

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