Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has passed away after long battle with illness on Monday in Guwahati.

Tarun Gogoi, a three-time Chief Minister breathed his last at the Gawahati Medical College and Hospital at 5.34 pm. The Doctors on Monday said that his health has deteriorated and was in very critical condition. The Congress leader was undergoing treatment at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital for post-COVID complications and was being monitored by a team of nine doctors.

Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma, who was at GMCH along with Gogoi’s son Gaurav said the former CM’s condition is extremely critical and worrisome. He is completely on life support and though doctors are trying yet the God’s blessings and peoples’ prayers are required to improve his current condition. Sharma said Gogoi’s organs have failed with the brain receiving some signals, eyes are showing some reflexes and his heart is functioning as a pace-maker is fitted, but no other organs are functioning.