Senior NCP leader D.P. Tripathi is no more, India loses an icon of intellect

Senior NCP leader D.P. Tripathi is no more, India loses an icon of intellect

New Delhi, Jan 2: It must have stunned innumerable people in the field of intellect and scores of people in the field of civil administration that a doyen of knowledge is no more. Prof D.P.Tripathy, later known as a spokesman of the Nationalist Congress Party(NCP) leaves a long footprint as an excellent teacher and a man on probity.

Former Rajya Sabha member and general secretary of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), D.P. Tripathi passed away, following prolonged illness, on Thursday. He was 64.

Tweeting her condolences, NCP’s Supriya Sule said, “Deeply Saddened to hear about the demise of Shri D.P Tripathi Ji. He was the General Secretary of @NCPspeaks, and a guide and mentor to all of us. We will miss his wise counsel and guidance which he had given us from the day NCP was established.”

A senior leader of the NCP, Tripathi had begun his political career at an early age and was associated with the Indian National Congress for long. Tripathi later left the Congress to join the NCP, where he was a trusted confidante of party supremo Sharad Pawar.