Former President Pranab Mukherjee, a senior leader of India’s Congress party who served in multiple Cabinets during five decades in politics, has died. He was 84. | AP
In this Oct. 10, 2008 file photo, India’s then Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, listens as to a speaker during the signing ceremony for the U.S.-India Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, at the State Department, in Washington. Former President Pranab Mukherjee, who was a key troubleshooter in managing fractious coalitions as a member of India’s long-governing Congress party died Monday evening. He was 84.
NEW DELHI — Former President Pranab Mukherjee, a senior leader of India’s Congress party who served in multiple Cabinets during five decades in politics, has died. He was 84. Mukherjee had emergency surgery for a blood clot in his brain on Aug. 10 at New Delhi’s Army Hospital Research and Referral after suffering a fall. The hospital said he tested positive for COVID-19 after the surgery and his condition was critical. He remained in a coma after the surgery.The hospital said his health began declining on Monday after a lung infection resulted in septic shock.Mukherjee was president from 2012 to 2017, at the end of a long period when the Congress party held power.
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