Former Speaker of Assam LegislativeAssembly Speaker Pranab Gogoi died at the age of 84, on Monday.

He breathed his last at the HealthCity Hospital in Guwahati today around 10.40 pm.

Gogoi was the Congress MLA of Sivsagarlegislative Constituency and he was a Minister during Tarun Gogoi Government inthe state.

Gogoi was born in 1936 in Dibrugarh and he was the speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly from 2011 to 2016.

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal expressed profound grief on the sudden demise of MLA Pranab Gogoi.