<p>Veteran Communist leader and rationalist Govind Pansare, who was a prominent face of the anti-toll movement, died on Friday night in Mumbai following complications from gunshot wounds that he suffered on Monday morning. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Pansare was 82. He is survived by wife, Uma, 67, who too received a bullet would during an attack on him.<br /><br />The couple were attacked on Monday morning during their morning walk in Kolhapur town in Western Maharashtra.<br /><br />Pansare on Friday evening was airlifted from Kolhapur and rushed to Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital.<br /><br />Pansare and his wife Uma had been shot from a close range, near their residence Ideal Housing Society at around 8.30 am on Monday last, when the couple was returning from a morning walk from the Shivaji University campus at Kolhapur. <br /><br />While Pansare sustained bullet wounds on the nape of his neck and another minor injury on his hand, wife Uma suffered a bullet injury on her neck.The injured Pansares were immediately rushed to the local Aster Aadhar Hospital. Pansare underwent two surgeries for removal of bullets. <br /><br />In 2013, anti-superstition activist Dr Narendra Dabholkar was killed in Pune in a similar fashion.<br /></p>
<p>Veteran Communist leader and rationalist Govind Pansare, who was a prominent face of the anti-toll movement, died on Friday night in Mumbai following complications from gunshot wounds that he suffered on Monday morning. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Pansare was 82. He is survived by wife, Uma, 67, who too received a bullet would during an attack on him.<br /><br />The couple were attacked on Monday morning during their morning walk in Kolhapur town in Western Maharashtra.<br /><br />Pansare on Friday evening was airlifted from Kolhapur and rushed to Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital.<br /><br />Pansare and his wife Uma had been shot from a close range, near their residence Ideal Housing Society at around 8.30 am on Monday last, when the couple was returning from a morning walk from the Shivaji University campus at Kolhapur. <br /><br />While Pansare sustained bullet wounds on the nape of his neck and another minor injury on his hand, wife Uma suffered a bullet injury on her neck.The injured Pansares were immediately rushed to the local Aster Aadhar Hospital. Pansare underwent two surgeries for removal of bullets. <br /><br />In 2013, anti-superstition activist Dr Narendra Dabholkar was killed in Pune in a similar fashion.<br /></p>