New Delhi: Senior Janata Dal (United) leader and a member of Bihar Legislative Council Tanveer Akhtar succumbed to COVID-19 on Saturday (May 8, 2021). He was in-charge of the state of JDU Minority Cell.


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Tanveer Akhtar became an MLC in 2016 and his term was till July 2022.



Chief Minister Nitish Kumar expressed condolences on the death of Legislative Councilor and called Tanveer Akhtar a skilled politician. Kumar called him as a sociable person and remembered him as a very popular mass leader. The Chief Minister has said that the last rites of Tanveer Akhtar will be performed with state honors.



Meanwhile, Bihar has recorded the maximum number of 1 lakh 21 thousand 340 corona infected so far. Of these 98,100 infected have become healthy while 10 infected have died during treatment. Currently, Patna has 22,330 active COVID-19 patients.