Television journalist Anjan Bandyopadhyay dies

Kolkata, May 16 (PTI) Eminent journalist and popular TV
anchor Anjan Bandyopadhyay, who tested positive for Covid-19
around a month ago, died at a private hospital in Kolkata on
Sunday night, a health department official said.
    He was 56.
Bandyopadhyay, the editor of Bengali news channel Zee
24 Ghanta, breathed his last at around 9.25 pm, the official
said.
    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee condoled the death of
the journalist, who is the brother of the state Chief
Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay.
    According to family sources, the TV anchor had tested
positive for COVID-19 in mid-April following which he was
hospitalised.
    "He had returned home after recovering a bit, but was
again taken to the hospital after his condition deteriorated.
He was put on a ventilator and then on Extracorporeal Membrane
Oxygenation (ECMO) support, but his condition continued to
deteriorate," an official of the hospital said.
    Bandyopadhyay was with ETV Bangla, 24 Ghanta and then
with Anandabazar Patrika's digital unit before moving to TV9
Bangla as the channel's first Editor. He returned to Zee 24
Ghanta as its editor just before this year's assembly
elections in West Bengal.
    "Saddened at the passing away of Anjan Bandyopadhyay,
one of the best-known television anchors in Bengal. He was a
bright, young and dynamic journalist," the chief minister said
in a statement.
    "I have no words to express my condolences to his
family and his colleagues in the fraternity. His Ma, wife
Aditi, daughter Titli, his elder brother Alapan Bandyopadhyay,
who is the Chief Secretary of the State," she said.
    The Press Club, Kolkata, also condoled his death. PTI
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