Former Odisha minister Ananta Das passes away at 85

BALASORE: Former minister and senior BJD leader from Balasore district Ananta Das passed away at his residence in Bhubaneswar in the early hours of Sunday. He was 85.

Family sources said Das was suffering from age-old related ailments for a long time and breathed his last at about 4 am.

Born on August 28, 1940 in Kuruthia village under Balim Panchayat under Bhogarai block, Das was a post graduate in Arts with a law degree and served as an officer of Odisha Administrative Service cadre.