Kolkata Aug 13 (IANS) Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee who died on Monday in a clinic will be accorded a gun salute at the West Bengal Assembly. Later his body will be donated to the state-run SSKM Hospital in line with his pledge.
First his body would be taken to the Calcutta High Court with which he was associated for a long time. "Then it will be taken to the State Assembly where we will give him the gun salute the highest honour of the state " Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said.
"Later his body will be taken to his residence and then to the SSKM hospital " she said.
Chatterjee had pledged to donate his body to the medical college in 2002.
The former Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader died at the Bellevue Clinic where he was admitted on August 7 after a heart attack. He was also suffering from a kidney-related ailment.

--IANS bdc/in/mr