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Party sources said Chakraborty was also in advanced stage of cancer. He is survived by his wife and a son.
Prominent personalities cutting across all spheres condoled his death.
Former chief minister Jyoti Basu, whom Chakraborty considered his mentor, expressed shock. Biman Bose said he informed the 96-year-old leader about Chakraborty’s demise.
“He is extremely shocked at the news,” Bose told reporters here.
According to Basu’s personal assistant Joy Krishna Ghosh, the nonagenarian leader while expressing sorrow, said: “It is my time to go. But the irony is I am alive, while Subhas is no more. He was a very capable leader.”
Former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly described Chakraborty as a “great personality”.
“I am shocked. I feel sad. I knew for the last few months that Subhasda was ill. He was a great personality,” Ganguly said.
“I knew him since my childhood as a family friend. He was a responsible comrade of the CPI-M,” Ganguly said.
In a message from Dubai, another former Indian skipper Ravi Sahstri expressed sadness that he would never again see Chakraborty in his trademark Panama hat and the “lovely smile”.
Bollywood hero Mithun Chakraborty said Subhas Chakraborty was like an elder brother to him. “I loved him a lot. He helped everybody, irrespective of party affiliations. Every day 100-150 people would come to his residence for help. And nobody returned disappointed.”
“He was a great lover of sports. He was always there when somebody was in crisis,” said the actor in an emotion-choked voice.
Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi said Chakraborty would always be remembered as a great mass leader.
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee also recalled Chakraborty’s contribution in the ministry as well as in the party organisation.
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said: “We were political opponents. But I had the opportunity to work with him as a central minister. People will remember him as a political personality.”
A gloom descended in Kolkata’s sports hub, the Maidan, with several clubs flying their flags at half mast.
The state government has declared a day’s mourning. State government offices were closed for the day at 1 p.m. as a mark of respect.
The cremation will be held Tuesday.
DETAILS OF BALLOT UNIT
•Ready lamp glows GREEN when Ballot button on Control Unit is pressed by P.O. to enable voting. Goes Off when voter has finished casting his vote.
•Slide Switch Panel used to set anyone of the 4 options: 1,2,3,or 4. ie. For 1 ballot unit Switch is set to 1 and so on…
•Candidates lamp: glows RED when the voter has pressed the candidate button pertaining to the candidate of his choice.
•Ballot paper Screen: where the Ballot Paper with name, sr,no., Symbol of contesting candidates is inserted.Masking tabs provided under the Candidate buttons. So depending on the no. of candidates contesting, the tabs are unmasked.
DETAILS OF CONTROL UNIT
•Display section has: 2 lamps: On and Busy ; also 2 display panels: one of 2 digit and other of 4 digit displays.
•Candidate Set Section: has a cover opening l-r: we see a left compartment which accommodates the Battery and the right one a Red Cad Set button. This section is closed by thread Seal.
•Result Section: also has same cover as above. On opening we find the left side has a Black Close button while right side has inner compartment with its own door. One button her is result 1 button. used for one type of election only: like only single Poll. Result 2 used for both types conducted at the same time, Clear button. Provision kept for a seal in the cover of this inner compt. and thread seal too.
•Ballot Section: has 2 buttons , a gray Total button and a large Ballot button.
•Bottom of C।Unit also open for plugging the cable from b।unit and a power switch to switch EVM On/Off.
CONTROL OF UNIT BOTTONS
•Cand Set: used to set EVM for no. of candidates contesting the election.
•Clear: pressed before start of a poll: to clear machine of recorded informations. Used when election is over/ not done w/o orders.
•Ballot: enables voter to record his vote: so once pressed: the BUSY lamp goes Red, Ready lamp of C.Unit goes Green and voter can now caste his vote. Then Pressed again to allow next voter to record his vote….
•Total: shows no. of candidates and total no. of votes recorded so far. Pressed at anytime: to see the same. But not when Busy lamp is ON.
•Close: Once pressed: no further voting can take place. Only pressed at the end of the Poll. When Pressed the no. of polls, no. of candidates, total votes polled and the word end will be displayed.
•Result: when EVM is used for simultaneous poll: ie Lok Sabha & Legislative assembly polls , both Result 1 & 2 are used ie. R1 for Loksabha,R2 for LA. When only single Poll, only R1 is used. In our case Only Result 1 USED. When Pressed it will display in sequence the no. of candidates, total no. of votes polled, votes for each candidates. The finally displays END. This button can be pressed as required.