Environmentalist and Chipko movement pioneer Sunderlal Bahuguna passed away due to COVID-19 on Friday.
He breathed his last at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. He was 94-years-old.
He was admitted to hospital on May 8. He breathed his last at 12.05 pm, AIIMS Director Ravikant said.
Condoling the death, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat described it as a big loss not just for Uttarakhand and India but for the entire world.
“It was he who made the Chipko movement a movement of the masses,” Rawat said.
Surjitt Sahani
