Sultan Singh, former TMC MLA dies of cancer at 76, CM Mamata Banerjee offers condolences

MLA Singh was known as a daring police officer and is credited with breaking the criminal racket in Golabari police station area in Howrah.

Kolkata: Former Trinamool Congress MLA and ex-IPS officer Sultan Singh died of cancer at a private hospital in Kolkata on Sunday, party sources said. He was 76. Singh had been elected on a TMC ticket in the 2011 assembly elections. He had joined active politics after his retirement and unsuccessfully contested the 2009 Lok Sabha polls on a Congress ticket, before shifting allegiance to the TMC.