Ex-LS speaker Somnath's body to be donated for medical research
The body of former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee, who passed away aged 89 on Monday, will be donated to the SSKM Hospital in Kolkata for medical research. Chatterjee had pledged to donate his body to the hospital in 2002. The ten-time MP was accorded the highest state honour in the West Bengal Assembly.