Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee is in critical condition after he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke on Monday (25 June). He was admitted to Belle Vue hospital in Kolkata.
“It was a hemorrhagic stroke with a medium size clot, which is ordinary. But it is dangerous for a patient aged 89 years,” ANI quoted hospital sources as saying.
It was a hemorrhagic stroke with a medium size clot which is ordinary, but dangerous for a patient aged 89 years: Hospital sources on former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee admitted to Belle Vue hospital in Kolkata (File pic of Somnath Chatterjee) pic.twitter.com/fesMA5uxk7
— ANI (@ANI) June 28, 2018
Chatterjee served as Lok Sabha Speaker from 2004 to 2009. In 2014 too, he had suffered a mild cerebral stroke. The former Communist Party of India (Marxist) member is presently an independent candidate.
Chatterjee had, of late, slammed the State Election Commission (SEC) over the West Bengal Panchayat Elections. “The SEC is not being able to take independent decisions. It should discharge its duties without any influence. But today we can see that it has failed to conduct a peaceful election,’’ Chatterjee had opined.
Chatterjee was expelled from the CPI(M) in 2008 for not putting in his papers as Lok Sabha Speaker. At that time, the CPI(M) had withdrawn its support from the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-I due to the nuclear deal between India and the United States of America. Prakash Karat was the CPI(M) general secretary, reported Times Now.