Ranchi, January 13: Senior CPI leader Khagendra Thakur died at a hospital on Monday after complaining of breathlessness. He was 82.

Thakur, who was admitted to a hospital in Patna, died at 1.30 pm, party sources said. A member of the CPI's Jharkhand unit executive committee, he was also the vice-president of Rashtriya Lekhak Sangh. Manmohan Mahapatra, National Award-Winning Filmmaker From Odisha, Dies at 69.

Born on September 9, 1937 at Malini village in Godda district, Thakur was a Hindi lecturer in Morarka College in Sultanganj. The CPI(M) has condoled the death.

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