Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha took time off his busy schedule on October 3 to perform surgery on one of his former students who had met with an accident.
Dr. Saha is an oral and maxillo-facial surgeon and served in a key position at the Tripura Medical College and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Teaching Hospital in the State’s capital Agartala.
The 70-year-old Chief Minister decided to operate on Sayantan Choudhury when the latter’s father, an engineer by profession, approached him. The father had made up his mind to take his son outside the State but cancelled the plan after the Chief Minister said he would take charge of the operation.
