New Delhi Feb 24 (IANS) Senior journalist and Editor-in-chief of National Herald newspaper Neelabh Mishra passed away on February 24 in Chennai.
The 57-year-old journalist who was critically ill with complications resulting from non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis was admitted to Apollo Hospital in Chennai earlier in February the newspaper said in a statement.
"He developed multiple organ failure before a liver transplant could be carried out. He breathed his last surrounded by his relatives friends and comrades " the National Herald said.
In 2016 Mishra steered the re-launch of National Herald the newspaper founded by India s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1938 as a digital news website.
In 2017 Mishra relaunched the National Herald as Sunday newspaper and then National Herald s sister publications Navjivan and Qaumi Awaz as news websites.
Paying tribute to Mishra Congress President Rahul Gandhi said he was a man who spoke truth to power.
"An institution builder. On Neelabh Mishra s tragic passing away this morning my deepest condolences to his family friends colleagues and admirers " he said in a tweet.
--IANS
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