Bengal minister Firhad Hakim said that this is a great loss for Bengal.
TMC MLA Kunal Ghosh said he was “a striking personality, whether in the ruling party or the opposition.” TMC MP Derek O’Brien said that he has always had a different approach to things.
Appreciating his legacy, CPI(M) MP Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya called him a “to the point person” who “used his power only to serve the people and not himself”.
Mukherjee’s body will be kept in Kolkata’s Rabindra Sadan on Friday morning so that people can pay their last respects.
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