Former Union Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi dead

Veteran Congress leader and former Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, who was in coma since 2008, died on Monday at 12.10 pm at Apollo Hospital here, doctors said. He was 72.

He had suffered a brain stroke in 2008 and was admitted to AIIMS. Later he was shifted to home, and in 2009 he was admitted to Apollo Hospitals here.