Dehradun: Two-time Congress legislator Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri – also the deputy
Speaker of assembly from 2012 to 2017 – passed away on Saturday. The 67-year-old Congress leader was suffering a kidney ailment. Recently, he had also tested positive for Covid-19 but had recovered from the virus after undergoing treatment at a private hospital in
Dehradun.
Congress state vice-president Suryakant Dhasmana told TOI, “He recovered from Covid-19 and his report later came as negative.
However, his kidney and lungs got damaged and he was admitted in the hospital for over a month. He breathed his last on Saturday.”
An MLA from Badrinath constituency from 2002 to 2017, Maikhuri contested and won from Karnaprayag constituency in 2012. Maikhuri had been raising his voice for many years to declare Gairsain as the state capital of
Uttarakhand. He was a native of the Maikhura area of Karnaprayag Tehsil in Chamoli district.
Maikhuri did his MA from Meerut in 1976. Thereafter, he completed LLB in 1982, B.Ed in 1994, and PhD in 2001 from Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University.
Meanwhile, state Congress chief Pritam Singh held a condolence meet, which was attended by senior members including Heera Singh Bisht, Vijay Pal Sajwan, and Dhirendra Pratap.