President MK Stalin condoled DMK MLA Anbazhagan's death and paid tributes to him
DMK legislator J Anbazhagan died of COVID-19 in Chennai on June 10 which was also his 62nd birthday. "The 61-year old MLA, who has been fighting for his life with severe COVID-19 pneumonia rapidly deteriorated early this morning. In spite of full medical support, including mechanical ventilation at our COVID-19 facility, he succumbed to his illness," Dr Rela Institute and Medical Centre said in a statement.
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DMK President M K Stalin and Chief Minister E Palaniswamy condoled Anbazhagan's death and paid tributes to him. Anbazhagan, who had comorbidities including chronic kidney disease was put on ventilator support on June 3 after his respiratory distress worsened.
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After showing improvement, his health condition deteriorated significantly on Monday.
Anbazhagan is the first big politician from Tamil Nadu to die of coronavirus. In a twee to offer condolences, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor pointed out that Anbazhagan was the first legislator to die in India of the infection.DMK MLA #JAnbazhagan is no more. He succumbs to #COVID19. He is the first legislator to die in India of the infection.
It was his 62nd birthday today. Om Shanti.https://t.co/CkShoW3CX0
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) June 10, 2020
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