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Freedom fighter dead
Marcus Dam
KOLKATA:
Phularenu Guha, veteran Congress leader and freedom fighter, passed away in her ashram in Bansdhoni, south of here, on Friday. She was 93.
She was Union Minister of State for Social Welfare between 1967 and 1970 when Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister. A prominent social activist involved with various organisations, she was a member of both Houses of Parliament.
Among those who paid their last respects at the ashram were West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, and senior leaders of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee. The body was taken to the office of the Pradesh Congress Committee. The cremation took place later in the evening.
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