New Delhi: Senior Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, who steered the party during the turbulent period of coalition politics at national level in 1990s, died in New Delhi tonight after prolonged illness.
Mr Bardhan, 92, is survived by son Ashok and daughter Alka. His wife, a professor in Nagpur University, died in 1986. Mr Bardhan was admitted to Delhi's GB Pant hospital after he suffered a paralytic stroke last month.
Dr Vinod Puri, Director and Professor of Neurology in G B Pant Hospital, said Mr Bardhan "died at 8:20PM. He had a brain stroke due to blockage in the middle cerebral artery. He was in comma".
"Condition of Comrade Bardhan has worsened today. He was put off ventilator yesterday and was able to breath normally. But today, his blood pressure (level) fell and his condition has turned very critical now," CPI national secretary D Raja said.
Mr Bardhan has been a leading figure of the trade union movement and Left politics in Maharashtra and a key figure in fostering relations between the Congress-led UPA and the Left in the early 2000s.
He later rose to become the General Secretary and then President of All India Trade Union Congress, the oldest trade union in India.
Mr Bardhan, 92, is survived by son Ashok and daughter Alka. His wife, a professor in Nagpur University, died in 1986. Mr Bardhan was admitted to Delhi's GB Pant hospital after he suffered a paralytic stroke last month.
Dr Vinod Puri, Director and Professor of Neurology in G B Pant Hospital, said Mr Bardhan "died at 8:20PM. He had a brain stroke due to blockage in the middle cerebral artery. He was in comma".
"Condition of Comrade Bardhan has worsened today. He was put off ventilator yesterday and was able to breath normally. But today, his blood pressure (level) fell and his condition has turned very critical now," CPI national secretary D Raja said.
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Mr Bardhan has been a leading figure of the trade union movement and Left politics in Maharashtra and a key figure in fostering relations between the Congress-led UPA and the Left in the early 2000s.
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He later rose to become the General Secretary and then President of All India Trade Union Congress, the oldest trade union in India.
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