Samir Dey (10 January 1957 – 18 November 2024) was an Indian politician from the

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who had served as minister of Higher Education in

Naveen Patnaik Naveen Patnaik (; born 16 October 1946) is an Indian politician and writer, who served as the 14th List of Chief Ministers of Odisha, Chief Minister of Odisha from 5 March 2000 to 12 June 2024. His 24-year reign is the List of longest-serving I ...

cabinet from 2004 to 2009. He had earlier served as the Minister of Urban Development in First Naveen Patnaik ministry from 2000 to 2004. He had represented Cuttack City thrice in a row –

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

in the

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. Dey died from a kidney infection on 18 November 2024, at the age of 67.Veteran BJP leader Samir Dey no more
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dey, Samir 1957 births 2024 deaths Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Odisha Odisha MLAs 2004–2009 Odisha MLAs 2000–2004 Odisha MLAs 1995–2000 Deaths from kidney disease