A senior leader of CPI(M) and the mayor of Siliguri, Ashok Bhattacharya was shifted to a hospital in Kolkata after suffering a cardiac arrest. According to family sources, he has been shifted for advanced treatment.

Bhattacharya was at his home in Siliguri on Sunday morning when he suffered a cardiac arrest. Family sources added that he was rushed to a private nursing home in the north Bengal city.