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It was untimely and most unfortunate for a man and leader of his repute to have bid an adiue to a life of fight and challenges in politics. He had traveled through politics r well but it had been a roller-coaster one since some time braving the intimidating phases of Covid.

But, under his leadership he did well to quash aside the dangers and silence his critics with lesser toxicity in politics. But, for his family and party it was so much to take his departure so early/

Odisha Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Das, who died after being shot at by a Police ASI, was an astute politician and businessman.
He was 57.
Das is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son.
He represented the Jharsuguda Assembly constituency in the Assembly thrice in 2009, 2014 and 2019.
A post-graduate in English and a law graduate, Das began his political career as a student leader of the Cogress from Sambalpur in 1980.
He was elected to the state Assembly on Congress ticket in 2009 and 2014 and was the state Working President of the Congress.
But later he left Congress and joined the BJD in 2019 just before the general election. He was elected to the state Assembly on the BJD ticket in 2019 and was inducted into the Council of Ministers. He was in charge of the Health and Family Welfare Ministry since then.
The second richest Minister in the present Council of Ministers, Naba Das was in the news after he donated an urn made of 1.7 kg gold to a temple in Maharashtra. Though some people put the value of the urn at over Rs one crore Das denied it and said it cost Rs 10 lakh.
On his death, Odisha governor Prof Ganeshi Lal, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Assembly Speaker Bikram Keshari Arukh and Ministers in the council of Ministers expressed their grief and condoled the death.

Mobilenews24x7 joins all to express its deepest condolences towards the family and wish his soul rest in peace.