Dasmunsi taken off life support system

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May 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - As the new government gets ready for work, Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, one of the stalwarts of the last Congress-led UPA government, continues to grapple with poor health. He has been in hospital for the past seven months after a heart attack and though his condition is not critical anymore, his recovery is slow, doctors said.

May 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - Amid the euphoria over the Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance mauling West Bengal's ruling Left Front in the general elections, one victorious Congress candidate has struck a discordant note. A day after her victory from Raiganj in North Dinajpur district, Deepa Dasmunsi Sunday alleged a section of Trinamool workers in her constituency had campaigned for an independent candidate.

April 30th, 2009 KOLKATA - Polling began in the Left turf of West Bengal for 14 of its 42 Lok Sabha seats amid tight security in the northern and Maoist-hit western regions Thursday. The polling centers opened at 7 a.m.

April 29th, 2009 KOLKATA - Left citadel West Bengal holds the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls in 14 of its 42 seats in the northern and Maoist-hit western region Thursday with the ruling Left Front facing a tough challenge from the newly-hitched Congress-Trinamool Congress alliance. Over 16 million voters will be eligible to choose their nominees in the Lok Sabha from among 134 candidates, with the Congress taking on the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) led Left Front, which has has had 32 years of uninterrupted rule in the state, in the bulk of the seats.

April 26th, 2009 LALGOLA - Police have stepped up vigil across West Bengal, particularly in the vicinity of the areas bordering Bangladesh, as Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is slated to address election meetings in border districts Monday. Gandhi will hold three meetings in the Jangipur, Malda North and Raiganj constituencies - which go to the hustings April 30 - during a day's visit to the state to canvass support for party candidates.

April 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress leader and central minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, who has been in hospital for almost six months, is now being mobilised on a wheelchair every day, the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital here said Tuesday. 'Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi remains neurologically status quo and off life support,' it said.

March 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress party is pitting External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee from Jangirpur constituency, and ailing minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi's wife Deepa from Raiganj, the party announced Sunday, releasing the list of its candidates for 11 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. Mukherjee represents Jangirpur in the outgoing Lok Sabha.

March 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Thursday announced it would contest the Lok Sabha elections from 14 of West Bengal's 42 constituencies under a seat-sharing agreement with Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress. 'We have reached a broad understanding with the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal for seat sharing,' the party's West Bengal in-charge Keshava Rao told reporters here.

March 10th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Congress MLA Deepa Dasmunsi, the wife of union Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, Monday claimed that grassroot party workers were unhappy with the seat-sharing deal with the Trinamool Congress. 'From what we've heard so far about the seat-sharing deal with the Trinamool Congress in the state, it seems it will be really tough for us to win in those constituencies.

March 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - The road to a possible alliance between the Congress and the Trinamool Congress for the Lok Sabha polls looked beset with thorns Sunday, with some West Bengal Congress leaders demanding that the Trinamool bigwigs either withdraw their disparaging comments about the state Congress president or apologise. Emerging from a meeting between Congress general secretary K.

March 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Setting the stage for seat adjustment with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the coming Lok Sabha polls, the Congress' West Bengal unit Sunday decided not to field any candidate against TMC chief Mamata Banerjee in the Kolkata South seat. However, discontent surfaced in the Congress over the possible alliance, with a section of leaders demanding Trinamool leaders, including Banerjee, either withdraw their disparaging comments against the state Congress president Pranab Mukherjee or apologise.

February 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ailing Information and Broadcasting minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi has been taken off the life support system but his brain has become dysfunctional after the second cardiac attack he suffered in October last year, say doctors. 'He was taken off the life support system in January and shifted to a private room from Intensive Care Unit.

January 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - European and English champions Manchester United have shown interest in providing technical support to the proposed All India Football Federation (AIFF) academy which will come up in Goa in association with telecom major Bharti. AIFF vice-president Subrata Dutta told IANS Wednesday that the English premier club has assured the federation of its support but the finer details of project are yet to be finalised.

December 22nd, 2008 NEW DELHI - An ailing Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi was Tuesday unanimously re- elected as the president of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) while paid secretary-general Alberto Colaco will stay in office for some more time, though his contract ends Dec 31. Announcing the list of new office-bearers after the Annual General Meeting (AGM) here at Football House Tuesday, acting president Praful Patel said the decision to re-elect Dasmunsi was unanimous and as for Colaco, he said he would take a call on his continuance in due course.