GUWAHATI: Veteran politician from the Congress party as well as the founder of NE TV media Matang Sinh has passed away owing to liver complications. It is reported that Sinh had also tested COVID-19 positive.
Matang Sinh was a former union minister of India. He was elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam in 1992 and served as union minister of state in parliamentary affairs from 1994 to 1998. Sinh was a close aide of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.
He started the first satellite channel of Assam NE TV along with Radio Ooo La La and other popular media outlets.
Sinh was arrested by CBI on 31 January 2015 for his alleged involvement in Saradha Chit Fund Scam.
