Chairman of the CPI-M's Central Control Commission, veteran trade unionist and former Rajya Sabha member Sukomal Sen died in a city hospital on Wednesday after prolonged illness, party sources said. Sen, 83, is survived by his wife and a son. A Rajya Sabha member for two consecutive terms from 1982 to 1994, he was an ex-General Secretary of the All India State Government Employees Federation, a mass organisation of which he was a founding member in 1960. He was a Senior Vice President of the organisation at the time of his death.

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