Congress candidate Rezaul Haque, who was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Kolkata after testing positive for COVID-19, died early this morning, health department sources said.
Rezaul Haque, Congress's nominee from the Samsherganj assembly constituency in Bengal's Murshidabad district, was initially admitted to a local private hospital on Wednesday, but later referred to a medial facility in Kolkata after his condition deteriorated at night.
He died at around 5 am this morning, the sources told news agency Press Trust of India.
West Bengal's Samsherganj assembly constituency goes to polls in the seventh phase on April 26.
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