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New Delhi, Nov 25 (PTI) Senior RSP leader and former MP Abani Roy passed away on Thursday.
He was 84.Roy died at the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital in Delhi.
His body was brought to Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) MP NK Premachandran"s residence, where leaders from various political parties paid their tributes.Roy was cremated at the Lodhi Road crematorium here, party sources said.West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee offered her condolences on Roy"s death."Deeply pained to hear about the demise of veteran leader and former Rajya Sabha MP Shri Abani Roy.
Sincere condolences to his family and loved ones," she said in a tweet.Associated with the RSP since the age of 20 in 1959, Roy was the member of its Central Secretariat, besides being the general secretary of the party for a brief period.
After his retirement from Parliament and active politics and following deteriorating health, he was staying at Premachandran"s residence here.Roy"s first foray into electoral politics was in 1978, when he was elected to the Kolkata Corporation.
He entered the Rajya Sabha in 1998 and retired in August 2011.