India : Former Odisha Chief Minister Hemananda Biswal passed away at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar while undergoing treatment on Friday, his daughter Sunita Biswal said. He was 82.
He was suffering from pneumonia and is survived by five daughters — Sabita, Sanjukya, Manjiulata, Sunita and Anita.
Born in 1939, Biswal was elected as the Chief Minister twice — from December 7, 1989, to March 5, 1990, and again from December 6, 1999, to March 5, 2000. He was the first tribal CM of the state.
