<p>Kolkata: Former West Bengal minister and veteran Congress leader Abu Hena died at his residence in Salk Lake, following a prolonged illness, party sources said on Monday.</p>.<p>Hena, 75, breathed his last around 10:45 pm on Sunday, they said.</p>.<p>He was the president of the Murshidabad District Congress Committee.</p>.<p>The Congress leader, who was a lawyer by profession, represented the Lalgola assembly seat in the West Bengal assembly from 1991 to 2021.</p>.'No longer one of us': Muraleedharan says Tharoor won't be invited to Congress events in Thiruvananthapuram .<p>In 2011, he became a minister in the first government of the Trinamool Congress, when the Congress was an ally of the party.</p>.<p>He resigned from the cabinet after the Congress withdrew its support from the government.</p>.<p>In the 2021 assembly elections, he was defeated for the first time by TMC candidate Muhammad Ali.</p>.<p>Abu's father, Abdus Sattar, was a member of Siddhartha Shankar Ray's cabinet. </p>
<p>Kolkata: Former West Bengal minister and veteran Congress leader Abu Hena died at his residence in Salk Lake, following a prolonged illness, party sources said on Monday.</p>.<p>Hena, 75, breathed his last around 10:45 pm on Sunday, they said.</p>.<p>He was the president of the Murshidabad District Congress Committee.</p>.<p>The Congress leader, who was a lawyer by profession, represented the Lalgola assembly seat in the West Bengal assembly from 1991 to 2021.</p>.'No longer one of us': Muraleedharan says Tharoor won't be invited to Congress events in Thiruvananthapuram .<p>In 2011, he became a minister in the first government of the Trinamool Congress, when the Congress was an ally of the party.</p>.<p>He resigned from the cabinet after the Congress withdrew its support from the government.</p>.<p>In the 2021 assembly elections, he was defeated for the first time by TMC candidate Muhammad Ali.</p>.<p>Abu's father, Abdus Sattar, was a member of Siddhartha Shankar Ray's cabinet. </p>