Veteran CPI-M leader and former West Bengal legislator Nirmal Mukherjee has died at his residence following old age complications, party sources said. Mukherjee, 82, died on Sunday night. He is survived by his two daughters.

Mukherjee was elected to the state assembly twice from Behala (West) constituency in 1991 and 2001. Born in 1935, he became a member of the undivided Communist Party of India in 1957, and joined the CPI-M after the split in the CPI.