2ND LD BASU TWO LAST

Basu had suffered multi-organ failure and was put on
a temporary pacemaker late Saturday night.
He had been put on Slow Low Efficiency Daily Dialysis
(SLEDD), but it was stopped after he was unable to tolerate it
beyond seven-and-a-half hours Saturday.
Basu's son, Chandan, daughter-in-law Rakhi, grand
daughters Payel, Doyel and Koyel were at the hospital.
Left Front ministers, Pratim Chatterjee, Kiranmoy
Nanda, Sudarshan Roychowdhury, Ranjit Kundu were at AMRI.
Former Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament)
Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, Communist Party of India-Marxist
(CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat, veteran Forward Bloc leader Ashok
Ghosh and a host of Left Party leaders visited the hospital.
CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat was among other
leaders who visited the hospital.
Basu's body will be taken to funeral parlour Peace
Haven at 2:00 pm (IST) from the hospital, party leader Shyamal
Chakraborty said.
He said people were flocking to the hospital after
learning of Basu's death. "But there are other patients here
who will be inconvenienced if the body is kept here. So we
have decided to take his body to Peace Haven."
Other arrangements would be decided later, he said.
PTI