Kolkata, Aug 3 : West Bengal Minister for Transport, Sports and Youth Affairs Subhas Chakraborty passed away at a private hospital in Salt Lake on Monday.

Sixty-eight-year-old Chakraborty is survived by his wife and a son.

According to party sources, the senior CPI (M) leader had been on ventilator support and died at 11:35 a. m. He was suffering from cancer.

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and other senior CPI-M leaders visited the hospital. (ANI)