India, Nov. 11 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Nagaland's Koridang assembly seat Imkong L Imchen, died at Guwahati on Tuesday. He was 75.

Officials said Imchen, the state government's advisor for Information and Public Relations (IPR), was admitted to a hospital in Kohima on November 7 after a suspected heart attack. He was airlifted to Guwahati on November 10 and breathed his last the following day.

A state funeral will be held on November 12 at 9:30am.

A five-time MLA, Imchen hailed from Mangmetong village in Mokokchung and sarted out in student politics where he was also chairman of an action panel of post-graduate student body at North Eastern Hill University Shillong and general secretary of the influential Naga St...